The wet, cool summer has reduced New Jersey's pumpkin crop this year to half the nearly 30 million pounds grown last year, or even less.

But it's not like an annual pumpkin crop.

NOW that Halloween is over, most Americans look forward to only one more use for the abundant pumpkin crop: in the Thanksgiving pie.

The need for repeated explanations about what was wrong with the pumpkin crop left farmers sounding testy.

This year, because of the flooding in the Midwest, the pumpkin crop was smaller.

Thanks to the hot, dry days of July, this fall's pumpkin crop will come in shy of bumper.

But farming is in him, and he says so as he shows off a prodigious pumpkin crop mellowing in a field he rescued from oblivion.

The elements have not been kind to this year's pumpkin crop.

The raccoons also feasted on the Wills' pumpkin crop.

Plans are presently underway to expand the tomato crop rotation that will produce deep into the fall growing season along with the pumpkin crop.