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Pumpkins: United States
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Pumpkins are grown primarily for processing with a small percentage grown for ornamental sales through you-pick farms, farmers’ market and retail sales. Total U.S. pumpkin production in 2006 was valued at $101.3 million. Top pumpkin production states are Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and California.
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Dustin Vande Hoef, communications director for the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, said 839 acres of pumpkins were harvested, with sales of about $1.4 million, in Iowa in 2000, the last year for which statistics are available. A survey in 2004 found about 250 pumpkin producers in the state.
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According to the University of Illinois, 90 percent of the pumpkins grown in the United States are raised within a 90-mile radius of Peoria, Illinois. Most pumpkins are processed into canned pumpkin and canned pie mix. Processing pumpkins have a comparable size and shape of a watermelon and a lighter colored shell.
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