The Cucurbita maxima ‘Golden Delicious’ (GD) type is the preferred pumpkin grown for processing and culinary seed production in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Processors value their large size (five – 10 kg), thin, red-orange skin (which will not blemish processed product) and high quality flesh (7% soluble solids and 10% total solids). Culinary seed producers prefer GD for its large, plump and attractive white seeds. Over half the GD pumpkin production in the Willamette Valley is for culinary seed, which is most often exported to Pacific Rim markets.