News you can't use

For reasons too complicated to go into, we found ourselves surfing the Statistics Canada website today. Where we found the following exciting news:

Canadian farmers more than doubled their area planted in pumpkin, squash and zucchini between 1986 and 2001, making them the nation's seventh most important vegetable crop, according to a new report.
Pumpkins were the fastest growing vegetable crop between 1986 and 2001. (For the sake of simplicity, the term "pumpkins" refers to three vegetables: Pumpkin, squash and zucchini.)
This fast growth appears to be related to the popularity of this vegetable during Thanksgiving and Halloween.

And if wasn't already clear that we have too much time on our hands, we have some quibbles here. For one thing, since Thanksgiving and Halloween happen, like, every year, how can these holidays alone explain the brilliant recent growth in the pumpkin crop? And then, if you're going to lump squash and zucchini in with pumpkins for statistical purposes, doesn't that weaken the explanatory power of Halloween? How many carved zucchinis with candles inside did you see on the doorsteps last week?