The Great Pumpkin Shortage: They Are Available for Halloween — But Maybe Not Thanksgiving

The Great Pumpkin Shortage: They Are Available for Halloween — But Maybe Not Thanksgiving, There should be abundant pumpkins for Halloween this year, but that ability not be the case for the canned attic acclimated in pies appear Thanksgiving, according to crop experts in Illinois, the country's top pumpkin-producing state.

"I would not delay until Nov. 20," University of Illinois assistant Mohammad Babadoost said, referencing the Nov. 26 holiday. "I'd buy it whenever it comes to the store."

Large canned-pumpkin architect Libby says yields could be off by as abundant as a third this year in Illinois, area about 90 percent of the pumpkins developed in the U.S. appear from aural a 90-mile ambit of Peoria.

Libby's accumulated and cast diplomacy administrator Roz O'Hearn said the company, which has had a axial Illinois pumpkin-processing bulb back 1929, is assured it will accept abundant attic for autumn holidays.But, she said, "once we address the butt of the 2015 harvest, we'll accept no added Libby's attic to advertise until autumn 2016."

Farmers are blaming almanac condensate in June for abrasion out the crop.

Jane Moran, who owns Moran's Orchard in Neoga, said they replanted done out attic crops and again it rained added so they're affairs pumpkins at bargain alert a week.

"When you accord with Mother Nature, you just accept to yield it and go on," Moran said.

Earlier this year, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner active legislation authoritative attic pie the official accompaniment pie of Illinois.
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