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By The Associated Press ELK GROVE, Calif. (AP) - That's a lot of pumpkin seeds. A Canadian farmer has won a contest in California with a pumpkin that weighs more than 1,500 pounds. Jake van Kooten of British Columbia collected more than $9,000 in prize money Saturday at the Elk Grove Giant Pumpkin and Harvest Festival. Festival spokesman Steve Capps says the entry, weighing 1,536.5 pounds, set a new California record - by just 1 pound. (c) 2008 Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque). Provided by...

The UK's Food Standards Agency has announced that Sainsbury's has withdrawn some packs of its So Organic Pumpkin & Sweet Red Pepper Soup because the packs contain So Organic Celeriac & Mushroom Soup. The presence of celeriac and celery in this soup is not mentioned on the packaging and therefore the product may be a possible risk to health for people allergic to celery, the agency stated. The agency has issued an allergy alert advising anyone with an allergy to celery not to eat the...

Prepare for pumpkins, big ones and flying ones. The second annual North Smithfield Great Pumpkin Festival is Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the high school, at the junction of Routes 5 and 104. There will be batting cages and pony rides, clowns and balloon sculptors, food and music. The featured performer is King's Row, an oldies harmony group. The featured foods are many: chowder, clam cakes, sausages, etc., offered by 45 different nonprofit organizations in town. There will be an...

By Dawn Hinshaw, The State, Columbia, S.C. Aug. 1--As they hoped, a Lexington couple's giant backyard pumpkin has indeed set a state record for weight. Frank and Tina Finders' pampered pumpkin weighed in this morning at 897 pounds, beating the previous best of 737 pounds. "I was hoping for 1,000 but 900 pounds is awesome," Frank Finders said. The newlyweds have been waiting for this day for nearly four months, keeping their pumpkin moist and shady. Two plastic hoot-owls scared curious...

Going Native, a food company, has announced that its range of gourmet, all-natural entrees is available across all Cost Plus World Market stores in the US. Sunil Sitlani, Going Native's co-founder and chief enrichment officer, said: "Making Going Native available in World Market stores allows us to bring what we believe are the world's best all-natural ethnic foods to many more consumers, and that's a huge and important step towards us achieving our overall vision." The company also said...

ST. LOUIS -- Monsanto Co. (MON) scientist Bill Johnson is trying to breed the perfect pumpkin peduncle.Stout and dark green, the modern-day peduncle, known as a stem outside the plant breeding world, is the result of decades of intensive breeding, Johnson said.The goal: making the perfect jack-o'-lantern lid."If you look at the really old (pumpkin) varieties, their peduncles were really lame compared to the peduncles that are out there now," Johnson said.Better known around the...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Halloween lovers hoping to create the perfect jack-o-lantern might want to shop carefully this year because of a pumpkin fungus that has put a dent in some crops.Two types of fungus or rot have affected crops from the Midwest to New England, causing pumpkins to develop mold in some spots and then begin decomposing, said Daniel Egel, a Purdue University Extension plant pathologist. The entire inside of the pumpkin eventually rots until the shell falls apart.A combination...

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Worried Martha Stewart fans can relax -- the ex-convict lifestyle guru will be rowing a giant 600 lb (270 kg) decorated pumpkin across a Canadian lake this weekend after all. Stewart had looked set to miss Sunday's charity pumpkin race in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia because her conviction for lying about a stock trade meant she needed special permission to enter Canada. As a U.S. citizen, the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia...