An enormous pumpkin grown in Minnesota has claimed the U.S. record for the heaviest pumpkin, weighing in at 2,560 pounds at the 49th annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Half Moon Bay in Northern California. Travis Gienger, an ag teacher in Anoka, raised the menacingly large vegetable himself.
The largest pumpkin in the world, however, remains a 2,702 pound one grown last year in Italy by Stefano Cutrupi.