Weigh-offs are held throughout the world and reported to the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth. These large pumpkins start out the size of a person’s thumb in mid-April, grow 40-50 pounds a day and ...

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.