sunflowers

The Washington State Department of Agriculture said this marks the first known occurrence of this destructive & highly invasive parasitic weed in North America.

U.S. growers say they will plant 49% more sunflowers this year.  Oilseed crushers and bird food buyers were expecting an acre increase given small carryover seed stocks.  Non-oil sunflower acres were somewhat below most traders’ thoughts.   According to the...

NASS is out with the latest grain summaries and stocks.   All wheat stored as of September 1st totaled 1.99 billion bushels, up 12% from a year ago.  On-farm stocks are estimated at 664 million bushels, up 11% from last September 2023, while off-farm stocks, at 1.32 billio...

The USDA's prospective plantings report shows a lot of things going on in the wheat world. In the case of winter wheat, just not really prospective plantings at all, since that crop has been in the ground since last fall. But until this last year winter wheat seedings have been declining pretty much every year for decades; down to record lows ...

Corteva Agriscience is working to take agricultural robotics to new heights using a Spot robot from Boston Dynamics. The company is among the first in agriculture to use this platform to ‘walk’ between rows of corn, sunflowers and other crops. Company o ...