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Far from it, say the growers, even if award-winning pumpkins can fetch up to $2 a pound in post-contest sales, typically to hotels or state and county fairs that may want to display them as fall ...
A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o'-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms). Travis ...
Chris Rodebaugh of Lewisburg, West Virginia, embraces his prize winning pumpkin, which weighed in at 1461 pounds, following the weigh-off for the giant pumpkin contest on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 ...
In 2019 the Weigh-Off was awarded the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth's "World's Top Weigh-Off Site" award for having the ten heaviest pumpkins among the 114 GPC-sanctioned weigh-off sites worldwide. The heaviest pumpkin ever to win the contest was the champion in 2023, which weighed 2,749 pounds (1,247 kg).
Video of a pressurized air pumpkin cannon being fired. "Yankee Siege" trebuchet, from New Hampshire, at 2008 Punkin' Chunkin' World Championship Punkin Chunkin (WCPC) was the name of an annual contest held the first full weekend after Halloween in Delaware from 1986 through 2013 and in 2016. It was also held in 2019 in Illinois and is scheduled ...
There was no contest in 2015, 2016 nor 2020. [6] The contest reverted to an annual contest in 2013 and 2014, after the previous 18 contests were held in even-numbered years. Although the 2021 contest was held virtually, the Food Network aired the contest from New York, NY. From 1996 to 2014, the grand prize was $1,000,000.
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After growing giant pumpkins for the past 10 years, Jamie Graham (@bigpumpki on TikTok) got his first win at the Topsfield Fair with a gourd named Bear Swipe. 2,480-pound pumpkin sets new record ...