A few of the busty orange pumpkins tumbled off the tractor trailer as a white pickup pulled it up from the fields. A few pumpkins didn't make much of a difference to the load — Roy Patterson, the current owner of Darr Farms, estimates that the overall load weighs about 20,000 pounds. "That's about ten tons, including the trailer," Patterson said. "On a regular day, we'll pull about a quarter million pumpkins out of those fields." On a busy day, it's more like 400,000. Looking out over the fields, it's hard to conceive the number of pumpkins that 310 acres can hold...
