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The Bloomfield Giant Pumpkin Bash is on Saturday September, 28th 2024 9:00a.m.- Noon. Exhibits will be released at 3:00 p.m., no sooner. The prize structure is as follows: GPC plaques and ribbons will be awarded. Giant Pumpkins $2,000 /1,500 / 1,000 / 750 /500/ 250 / 150 / 100/ 75/ 50, Watermelons $300 / 200 / 100, Field Pumpkins $300 / 200 / 100, Long Gourds $150 / 100 / 50, Bushel Gourds $300 / 200 / 100, Marrows $100 / 75 / 50, Tomato $50, Butternut Squash $100 / 75 / 50, Lunga Di Napoli Squash $100 / 75 / 50, Howard Dill Award (must weigh atleast 500 lbs)$100 plus HD plaque, Largest Davis County Exhibits Giant Pumpkin $250 Field Pumpkin $50 Watermelon $50, Longest distance driven by exhibitor $50. This will be held at the Davis County Fairgrounds on the west side of Bloomfield, Iowa. We will be offering food or drink again this year. All the food proceeds will help our grower club fund this weighoff. No alcohol allowed. Also exhibitors and attendees can bring their own chairs if you wish. The weighoff will be held in a very large building so we will have a roof overhead. No pre-registering is required. The registration fee is $20 and goes toward all classes for the exhibitor. There is no registration fee on Tomato's, Butternut's or Lunga Di Napoli's. Exhibitors can weigh more than one fruit per class. 1 exhibit will be entered toward placing and prize money and the others will be exhibition only. Grower needs to claim which exhibit is toward placing before their fruit is weighed or measured. The growers other fruits will then be considered exhibition only in the same class. All will be officially weighed or measured and entered on the GPC web site. Green Squash will be weighed against AG’s towards prize money. Green Squash will be entered and placed per the size on the GPC web site under Squash. We will be having a giant pumpkin drop again this year following the weighoff.

9/22/2024 5:55:15 PM