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In 2009, the Matanuska Valley produced world-record vegetables including a cabbage, beet, zucchini, and carrot. The carrot, which exhibited numerous branches from the main root, weighed 18.99 pounds. The zucchini weighed 29.6 5 pounds, and the beet root was 4.2.75 pounds. The cabbage weighed 127 pounds, though that size has since been surpassed in more recent years. These vegetables stood for the many extraordinary record-setting crops produced in the valley by farmers who combined abundant daylight and fertile soils with their individual horticultural skills.
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