A repeat champion pumpkin farmer from Minnesota set a new world record with his massive entry at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay Monday morning.
HALF MOON BAY â Growers from across the country arrived on Main Street for the 50th annual competition, hoping to take home thousands of dollars in cash prize and potentially set a new world record. Defending champion Travis Gienger's leviathan 2,560-pound mega-gourd set a new North American record and handily won in 2022. Gienger's latest behemoth was even bigger, tipping the scales at 2,749 pounds.
Miller won the competition in 2013 with a 1,985-pound pumpkin. He hopes this year is another successful run with what he considers the best shaped pumpkin he has ever grown. The competition has come a long way in five decades from a local winner growing a pumpkin around 130 pounds to Gienger's 2022 champion gourd. That grower also set a new record for North America but came under the current world record from Italy of 2,703 pounds, set in 2021.
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