The weather this growing season is partially to blame for what an Indiana County farmer calls his worst season ever for pumpkins.

Yarnick's Farm usually supplies supermarkets and vendors in the Pittsburgh area with pumpkins. But not this year, as the farm didn't have enough pumpkins for anything other than its market.

"It's been a challenge from the beginning," Yarnick's Farm owner Dan Yarnick said.

The farm faced many days of rain before drought conditions, Yarnick said. It spent Friday mowing its Pumpkin patch, the earliest its pumpkin harvest has ever concluded. Usually at this time of year, kids are on the farm picking pumpkins.

"We give a hay ride to the pumpkin patch, and it's so much fun to haul a wagon load of kids, and they're all happy. And this year, we just couldn't do it b

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