True many folks don't want that kind of responsibility anymore, I was at a patch

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...with my daughter so she can experience picking a fresh pumpkin for herself and it's huge as it requires lots of land. Therefore, it probably requires lots of labor too and that scares many young folks that don't want to work that hard:

Pumpkin farmers are facing an unprecedented crisis: ‘There’s no future after me’

“There's no future after me,” Mazzotti said. “My boys won't farm.” The combination of record-breaking summer heat and reduced access to water, even in wetter years, is causing significant drops in the United States' pumpkin industry output.

I took these photos of it: