The new statistics will provide the fruit industry with information to assist with marketing, production forecasting and promotion. They are also a vital component in determining chemical usage needed to obtain and maintain registration. The survey questionnaire will be mailed to growers in the middle of October. Those not responding by mail will be contacted by telephone. Field enumerators will visit and obtain information from large growers and those who did not respond earlier.
All data are confidential and used only for summary tables.
Survey results will be available in late summer 2001. Each grower will receive a copy of the summary bulletin. Farm Bureau Quick Facts Colonists sliced off pumpkin tips, removed seeds and filled the insides with milk, spices and honey. This was baked in hot ashes and is the origin of pumpkin pie. Mich. Arends named the new variety after his wife Pauline.