2009 Results:  1st Place Pumpkin - 1040.5 lbs    2nd Place Pumpkin - 969.5 lbs    3rd Place Pumpkin - 623.0 lbs    4th Place Pumpkin - 526.0 lbs    5th Place Pumpkin - 441.5 lbs 1st Place Squash - 935.5 lbs 2nd Place Squash - 820 lbs 3rd Place Squash -628.5 lbs 4th Place Squash - 470.0 lbs 5th Place Squash - 251.0 lbs

28th Annual World Pumpkin Weigh-Off

The eyes of the world will be on Clarence Saturday, October 2nd as growers worldwide await news on the World Pumpkin Confederation 27th Weigh-Off.  We begin at 10am.  The winners will be announced at 12noon and prizes will be awarded to the growers who bring the three largest Pumpkins to the Great Pumpkin Farm Weigh-Off.  We will pay $10,000 for a world record pumpkin that is brought here for the Weigh-off!!!

I wasn't sure we could grow a 500 pound pumpkin when we first started talking about a 1,000 pounder in 1986.  Ten years later we had the first one right here at the 1996 Great Pumpkin Farm Fall Festival, 1,061 pounds and it went right into the Guinness Book of World records.  A decade later we have had lots more 1,000 pound pumpkins here and at other locations around the world, some over 1,500 pounds.  Who knows, this might be the year when we see a 1,600 pound pumpkin.

I want to be here for that day, and I'll bet you do too.  That's just one great reason for you to join us at the Great Pumpkin Farm Fall Festival.  Enjoy family fun here every day seven days a week thru Halloween.  It's all part of our region's largest family festival.  It gives me great pleasure to be a part of this wonderful event and to invite you to join us.

Ray Waterman, founder and President of the World Pumpkin Confederation

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2007 Results:  1st Place Pumpkin - 896.5 lbs    2nd Place Pumpkin - 816.5 lbs    3rd Place Pumpkin - 609.5 lbs    4th Place Pumpkin - 593.5 lbs    5th Place Pumpkin - 568.5 lbs    Exhibit - 1260.5 lbs 1st Place Squash - 436.0 lbs 1st Place Watermelon - 125.0 lbs

2008 Results:  1st Place Pumpkin - 1075 lbs    2nd Place Pumpkin - 981 lbs    3rd Place Pumpkin - 849 lbs    1st Place Squash - 595.5 lbs 1st Place Watermelon - 64.5 lbs 1st Place Long Gourd - 122.5"