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Last year, a shortage of pumpkin threatened the traditional Thanksgiving pies made from the bright orange squash. The shortage appears to be over, but the conditions that caused the shortage remain unchanged. Here's why pie fans should worry.

News from Illinois and other Midwestern pumpkin farms has me worried I'll have to add more security to my front walk. My front yard, relieved this spring of its burden of grass, is a wild mess of corn stalks, bean and tomato vines, sunflowers, asparagus ferns, and pumpkins. My kids have already...