Pumpkin Squashes Records

HALF MOON BAY, California - A new Art and Pumpkin Festival record was set Monday when the winner of Half Moon Bay's annual pumpkin weigh-off came in at a whopping 1,524 pounds.
The grower of the pumpkin, Thad Starr, of Pleasant Hill, Ore., will receive $9,144 for his record-setting pumpkin. He won $6 for each pound of pumpkin.
Starr's winner fell 11 pounds short of the 1,535-pound record for a pumpkin in a California contest, set just this weekend in Elk Grove (Sacramento County) by Pete Glasier of Napa. The world record pumpkin is a 1,689-pound squash grown this year by Joe Jutras of Rhode Island.