Kansas Pumpkin Patches Came Up Short After Wichita’s Driest Summer Since the Dust Bowl

Nature World News | 06.11.2026 02:07
Some Kansas pumpkin patches had too few pumpkins to open this fall, and others had to truck them in from other farms. The cause was a brutally hot, dry summer that ranked among the driest on record in south-central Kansas, KCUR and the Kansas News Service reported on Oct. 28.