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If you’re counting on pumpkin pie with your traditional Thanksgiving feast, you might want to do the menu planning early.
Libby’s, the unit of Nestle that has an estimated 80% of the canned pumpkin market, says that it thinks it will have enough canned pumpkin to make it through Thanksgiving, but the short harvest means it will be tight.
Roz O’Hearn, a spokesperson for Libby’s parent company, Nestle U.S., says that rainy weather in Illinois cut the crop by half compared with 2014. “But we generally plant enough pumpkin so we have a cushion to carry us into the next year”.
So, when stores sell out, they will likely be out until next year’s harvest.
James Jackson, a Co-Owner of Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm, said Monday, Columbus Day weekend is usually the busiest weekend they have, but he loves what he does. The canned pumpkin comes from what is known as sugar pumpkins. They are a lot more oval in shape, extremely dense with thick walls and are also a pale color. Pumpkin crops are down by about 50% this year. Libby’s fills its cans with pumpkins that come mostly from Illinois, America’s leading pumpkin producer.
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An Associated Press report says there could be a shortage of canned pumpkin after a large amount of rain hit the Midwest this summer.
