If you’re a fan of pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dessert, say thanks to the pumpkin farmers in central Illinois. They grow about 90 percent of the U.S. pumpkin crop. (In 2007, that crop was worth $117 million to them.) Central Illinois is also where the world’s largest pumpkin processing plant is located. It produces 85 percent of the canned pumpkin on supermarket shelves.
(Source: University of Illinois)
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