Pumpkins/Squash
Minnesota pumpkin numbers looking good at season’s end
While most national attention is focused on the “Frankenstorm” that pounded the East Coast this Halloween, Minnesota farmers appear to have wrapped up a good to great harvest for most crops this season.We don't know... more »
Benton City farm produces plethora of pumpkins
Chances are the pumpkins you picked up at the grocery store to carve up for Halloween this year were grown somewhere in Benton County.Robert Cox Farms of Benton City supplies all the pumpkins sold by... more »
Corn mazes, pumpkin patches and U-pick fruit are part of a growing agritourism trend
You know it's fall when your Facebook feed is full of photos of your friends and their children exploring corn mazes, picking out pumpkins and going on hay rides.For many, such activities are tradition.And for... more »
Processing pumpkins boost illinois acreage
For growers around Morton, Ill., the so-called Pumpkin Capital of the World, fall is a very busy time of year, said Mohammad Babadoost, a researcher with the University of Illinois who studies pumpkins and other... more »
Central Illinois farm market going strong despite drought, frost
Tanner's Orchard is celebrating its 65th year as a family-run business. The 80-acre, Speer, Ill., farm and market was founded in 1947 by John Tanner. The original family farm was started in 1906 in Deer... more »
Rhode Island pumpkin sets new world record
Organizers of a fair in northeastern Massachusetts claim a Rhode Island man has set a new world record with the first pumpkin ever to weigh more than a ton.Leaders of the Topsfield Fair say the... more »
Ohio family grows with the market
Three farms. Four thousand acres. Thirty-five commodities grown. Another 30 or so bought from other growers. Those numbers give a sense of the size and complexity of Buurma Farms, based in Willard, Ohio.In the busy... more »
Savvy farmers save pumpkin crop, Halloween
It took some creative thinking and extra labor, but area farmers rescued their 2012 pumpkin harvests from the ravages of severe drought. Yes, there will be a happy Halloween.At Maize Valley Farms and Winery, 6193... more »
