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.

Wallace has become the rock star of giant pumpkin-growing. He was the first person in the world to break the 2,000-pound, or 1-ton, barrier when he grew a 2,009-pound pumpkin in 2012, and he ...