MASON CITY — Just one month before Halloween, Don Fix is grappling with a large part of his pumpkin crop now washed down the Winnebago River.

During storms earlier this week, one of a pair of pumpkin patches at Fix Family Farms was submerged on the river’s banks.

He estimates around 5,000 pumpkins were lost — nearly 17 percent of his 30,000 pumpkin annual harvest. Sold at $3 each, it is an estimated $15,000 loss.

“We woke up Thursday morning, all the pumpkins were gone,” Fix said. “We were shocked at first, and then angry (then accepting). That’s really what we went through.”

Read the full article on the Mason City Globe-Gazette website.