The be largest of the entries in the Cucurbit Category for the 1987 Latah County Fair, this pumpkin weighed in at 214 pounds. The world record for heaviest pumpkin was broken this year at the Uesugi Farms Pumpkin Weigh-Off Contest by a pumpkin weighing 2,032 pounds. This massive squash was grown by Tim and Susan Mathison of Napa, CA. The largest pumpkin grown in Idaho, according to BackyardGardener.com, was grown by Bret Brown in Peck, ID in 2012 and weighed in at 1,219 pounds.