Though it took about a century to get competitive pumpkin growing from its starting point — a 400-pounder at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair — to the thousand-pound mark, it took a mere 16 years ...

The first pumpkin to exceed 1,000 pounds was grown in 1996. The current World Record-holding pumpkin was 2,749 pounds, grown in 2023 by Travis Gienger of Minnesota. The next great leap in the ...

A massive pumpkin named Michael Jordan has squashed the world record for the heaviest gourd and earned its grower a neat $30,000 (£24,500) in prize money. Minnesota horticulture teacher Travis ...

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Large pumpkins will be carved, with two walls of 1,000 pumpkins painted to complement ... They set a world record in 2000 with a 1,140-pound pumpkin. The current world record is 2,632 pounds ...

On Oct. 25, with help from his grandson, Grant Cooper, 12, Keefer transformed this year’s 1,777-pound pumpkin into the face of a cat — complete with whiskers made from grasses found along ...