In Floydada, Texas, which calls itself "Pumpkin Capital, USA," Halloween is the time for farmers who produce more than a million of the orange globes to kick back and savor the mostly empty fields.
Pumpkins are heavier and can be harder to handle than almost any other crop in the Texas Panhandle flatlands, where cotton is king and corn is commonplace. Floydada is just another small town of a few thousand people trying to make a living working the land.