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Greetings. The SCGA, in partnership with Summer Tuesdays, is thrilled to announce the 2023 Stillwater HarvestFest Prize Structure. Thanks to our generous partners, our purse has grown from $20,000 to $27,000 in total prize money. We have nothing to hide, we want the largest top ten average in the world at our scale. With this infusion, we have structured a very lucrative payout that incentivizes growers with pumpkins of all sizes. 

The top ten payout has gotten a significant overhaul to lure the midwest's largest fruit.  Notably, a $20,000 bonus for a new world record pumpkin.  1st place got a $1000 bump, and we will now bonus any pumpkin weighing over 2000lbs, regardless of where it places in the lineup. We really like one-ton fruit.
 
11-20 places got a bump as well.  We continue to reward growers for growing the orange-est, prettiest pumpkins with our expanded Howard Dill site awards and Howard Dill Champion of the North competition. 

New bonuses include $100 for pumpkins weighing closest to 500, 750, 1000, & 1250lbs.  Lastly, we'll help put a dent in the gas bill with a $50 incentive for the grower who travels the farthest number of miles to our event (we should name this the "inverse Travis award"????). lol 

Please visit https://www.stcroixgrowers.org/pages/weigh-offs for weigh off details

and https://www.harvestfeststillwater.com/ for more details about the other activities happening at this year's event. 

9/3/2023 10:13:37 AM