Photo: NZ HeraldPumpkin prices are the highest they've ever been, spiking to nearly $6 a kilo. The price of $5.78 a kilo was the most pumpkin had costs since Stats NZ's food price series began in 1993. Now, we've gone from "one extreme to the other" with a dry spell slowing down pumpkin growth on the vine. Last year saw a similar though less extreme spike in prices just before Christmas, which levelled out in January and February. "It's subject to the weather - if we get a break in the [dry] weather they'll come down."

Source: Otago Daily Times December 12, 2017 23:48 UTC