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2017 A Good Year for Pumpkin Pies

Dan Industry News Release

Despite a scare in mid-August, the 2017 pumpkin crop is looking good. Not the jack-a-lantern type, although those did well, too.  But, the kind used for pumpkin pie filling. Farmers in Illinois raise the overwhelming majority of pumpkins used to make the pies served at Thanksgiving. Something like 90 percent of the pumpkin pie filling comes from fields in an …