one of which featuring a pumpkin weighing over 1,700 pounds. The pumpkins were hoisted on a crane and then dropped on to a wooden platform during the farm's Pumpkin Madness Fest on Saturday.

This is not a matter of a few pounds added to the record each year. Though it took about a century to get competitive pumpkin growing from its starting point — a 400-pounder at the 1900 Paris ...

Read full article: Michigan’s largest pumpkin? Trenton family has 600-plus pound pumpkin TRENTON, Mich. – This weekend is the most likely time for families to hunt down the perfect pumpkin.