Area planted to sunflower in 2024 decreased 46% from 2023 and totals 715,200 acres, according to the initial USDA Farm Service Agency crop acreage report. The planted area of oil-type varieties, at ...

THEY WILL END UP DROPPING SOME OF THOSE SEEDS ON THE GROUND. AND THEN SOME SOME NEW SUNFLOWERS WILL GROW NEXT YEAR. SO YEAH. SO NEXT YEAR YOU COULD EVEN END UP WITH MORE SUNFLOWERS THAN YOU ...

who loved to grow sunflowers in our front yard in southwest Florida,” he says. When Cox found his own passion for gardening, one of his first plantings was a sunflower seed in a tiny ...

The Hamburg based publication expects demand rationing will be inevitable in the months ahead due to lower beginning seed stocks and reduced global sunflower production. The situation bears ...

National Sunflower Association notes latest report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture about sunflower acres.

New York, United States, Aug. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As per the Latest Report by Straits Research, the global sunflower oil market size was valued at USD 35.84 billion in 2023. It is ...

Sunflowers really do "dance" as they grow so as not to block solar rays from each other, reveals new research. The study sheds light on a scientific puzzle that has occupied researchers since the ...

Let’s dig deeper into the wonderful world of seeds. Sunflower seeds contain antioxidants in the form of vitamin E which plays a cell-protecting role. Antioxidants collect loose electrons in the ...

These sunflowers flourished. Researchers then planted some plants at the same density but constrained them so that they could grow only upright without leaning. These constrained plants produced ...

“We (normally) use very little of the fruit — it’s like growing a pumpkin to only use the seeds,” said Kim Mishra, a lecturer at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology of the ...