{"id":1010049,"date":"2022-03-03T21:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/03\/look-hawaii-farmers-50-pound-taro-might-set-world-record\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T21:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:16:04","slug":"look-hawaii-farmers-50-pound-taro-might-set-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/03\/look-hawaii-farmers-50-pound-taro-might-set-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Hawaii farmer&#039;s 50-pound taro might set world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hawaii-farmers-50-pound-taro-might-set-world-record.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 3 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Hawaii farmer may have set a new world record when he harvested a taro that weighed 50 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Clarence Medeiros, a Big Island farmer who for 50 years has been growing taro, known locally as kalo, said he frequently harvests oversized taro on his property, including a 33-pound specimen last season.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Medeiros said he and his wife, Nellie, were shocked when a kalo harvested last week measured 27 in circumference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was going to be a little over 25 pounds. I was going low,&#8221; he told KHNL-TV.<\/p>\n<p>At 50 pounds, the taro might be a world record, Medeiros said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it got put onto the scale and we saw it, and it said 50, we were like eyes wide open,&#8221; Nellie Medeiros said. &#8220;It can&#8217;t be that heavy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the Hawaii Ulu Cooperative witnessed the weighing of the taro as evidence for Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen a lot of taro over the years, but nothing anywhere close to that large. So it was pretty amazing,&#8221; the cooperative&#8217;s Holokai Brown said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 3 (UPI) &#8212; A Hawaii farmer may have set a new world record when he harvested a taro that weighed 50 pounds. Clarence Medeiros, a Big Island farmer who for 50 years has been growing taro, known locally as kalo, said he frequently harvests oversized taro on his property, including a 33-pound specimen last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1010051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}