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EAST MOLINE, Ill. — Unseasonably warm weather is putting pressure on local pumpkin patches just as fall festivities begin across the Quad Cities. “We’ve had a lot of high heat,” Beri Dennhardt said.

Many food crops thrive only when they are bathed in sunlight most of the day. Most of the “summer crops,” such as tomatoes, corn, beans, squash or cucumbers, need a minimum of six hours of sun a day.