Context:
Over 1.5 billions pounds of pumpkin are grown annually in the United States. Where are they sold, and for how much?
This dataset contains prices for which pumpkins were sold at selected U.S. cities’ terminal markets. Prices are differentiated by the commodities’ growing origin, variety, size, package and grade.
Content:
This dataset contains terminal market prices for different pumpkin crops in 13 cities in the United States from September
24, 2016 to September 30, 2017.
Atlanta, GA
Baltimore, MD
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Columbia, SC
Dallas, TX
Detroit, MI
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
New York, NY
Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco, CA
Saint Louis, MO
Data for each city includes the following columns (although not all information is available for every city)
Commodity Name: Always pumpkin, since this is a pumpkin-only dataset
City Name: City where the pumpkin was sold
Type
Package
Variety
Sub Variety
Grade: In the US, usually only canned pumpkin is graded
Date: Date of sale (rounded up to the nearest Saturday)
Low Price
High Price
Mostly Low
Mostly High
Origin: Where the pumpkins were grown
Origin District
Item Size
Color
Environment
Unit of Sale
Quality
Condition
Appearance
Storage
Crop
Repack: Whether the pumpkin has been repackaged before sale
Trans Mode
Acknowledgements:
This dataset is based on Specialty Crops Terminal Markets Standard Reports distributed by the United States Department of Agriculture. This data is in the public domain.
