Onida, S.D., farmer Chuck Todd is no stranger to sunflowers. In the 1980s, before returning to the farm and growing the crop himself, he was an agronomist and sales manager for a company that sold ...

A second contractor of hybrid sunflower seed production has pulled out of California in as many years, sending growers scrambling to find new seed-production contracts or replacement crops. Early this ...

Sunflower producers and crop advisers interested in sunflower production management updates should plan to participate in the Zoom conference “2026 Getting-it-Right in Sunflower Production” rom 8:30 a ...

THIS is not a good year for watermelon farmers.The market is flooded and prices have plunged by 200%. Around this time last year, a 5kg of watermelon was fetching US$8. But farmers would be lucky if ...

LAHORE: Pakistan is likely to have record sunflower production this year as cultivation will exceed the target set by Pakistan Oilseed Development Board (PODB), The Express Tribune has learnt. PODB ...

Nationwide, the sunflower crop of 2015 was record-breaking. South Dakota was the top state in sunflower production for the third year in a row. South Dakota had a record high yield per acre in 2015, ...

One winter afternoon, we sat down with a man named Osit Mondol. He is a 43-year-old farmer with decade-long experience in farming and he shed some light on the benefits of sunflower cultivation. He ...