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Oct 11, 2026
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High costs haunt Canadian ornamental pumpkin farm
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In addition to ornamental crops and pie pumpkins for eating, Butters Farms grows soybeans, wheat, butternut squash and sweet and field corn, which account for about 90 per cent of the farm’s acreage.
Ornamental crops — including decorative corn, star-shaped Crown of Thorns gourds and white, tennis ball-sized Baby Boo pumpkins — account for just 10 per cent of the farm’s acreage but generate about half its revenue.
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“Our average trucking rate is up 30 per cent from last year,” Patrick Butters said.
The eighth-generation farmer said the cost of changing the hydraulic oil and filters in two tractors last weekend totalled nearly $2,000, a job that would have cost about $500 five years ago.
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High costs haunt Canadian ornamental pumpkin farm
By Brett Bundale The Canadian Press
Posted October 11, 2026 8:14 am
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Brothers Patrick, left, and Christopher Butters of Butters Farms in St. Thomas, Ont. on Sunday, October 4, 2026.
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The Butters brothers know pumpkins.
The second-generation southwestern Ontario farmers have carved out a niche in ornamental pumpkins, gourds and corn, seasonal crops that decorate tables on Thanksgiving and porches on Halloween.…
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