Chances are excellent the pumpkin pie you’re going to eat at Christmas dinner started as a seed planted in an Illinois field.
Illinois farms grow the lion’s share of pumpkin pie filling
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About 77 percent of pumpkins in the U.S. grown for processing come from Illinois farms.
Illinois is the nation’s leader in pumpkin production, with the Libby’s plant in Morton churning out millions of cans of the fruit every year.
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