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 ...

North Dakota-based SunGold Foods will begin production at the company's new Lubbock sunflower seed processing plant within the next couple of weeks, according to plant manager Mike Williams. The ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. - When it comes to sunflowers and sunflower growers, Tim Petry, field production manger for Dahlgren & Co. in Crookston, Minn., is a big fan. "We really are blessed with some good, ...

Reduction of the forecast of sunflower seed production in Ukraine in 2017/18 MY made significant adjustments to operations of fat-and-oil enterprises, and somewhat complicated the formation of raw ...

A farmer harvests sunflowers in Bayannuur, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in September last year. YUAN PEIYE/XINHUA HOHHOT — At 57, Wang Fei is hailed as the "King of Sunflower Seeds" in his ...

Irregular and unstable sunflower supply from farmers did not allow oil extraction plants to form sufficient stocks throughout the 2024/25 MY. This was stated by Stepan Kapshuk, General Director of the ...

The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is a species of the Asteraceae family. The plant seeds are edible, and manufacturers use them for foods and producing sunflower oil. As such, sunflower oil ...