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Post Date:
Jan 21 2025
Nominations invited for NSA Gold Award
Every year, the National Sunflower Association presents its Gold Award to an individual who has contributed extraordinarily to the overall sunflower industry, either through his or her occupation or through the National Sunflower Association. This award is considered to be the highest award that the NSA presents to individuals. The award has been given since 1989. Some past Gold Award winners include John McLean, Larry Kleingartner, Duane Berglund, Sen. Mark Andrews, Chuck Moses, Jim Krogh, Gary Fick and Robert Majkrzak. Nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 NSA Gold Award. Visit
www.sunflowernsa.com/all-about/goldaward/
and scroll to the bottom of the page for the eligibility and criteria requirements. Nominations must be received by
February 7, 2025
. The NSA Board of Directors will review all submitted applications and choose a recipient. The Gold Award will be presented during this year’s NSA Summer Seminar, set for June 24-26 in Bismarck, ND.
Sunflower Production Update set for January 30
Sunflower producers and crop advisers interested in sunflower production management updates should plan to participate in the Zoom conference
‘2025 Getting-it-Right in Sunflower Production’ on Thursday, January 30 from 8:30 a.m. to noon CST.
The program will be conducted by North Dakota State University Extension and is supported by NSA. Topics that will be covered range from plant nutrient and soil management, updates for weed, disease and insect management, and sunflower marketing. Attendees will receive a list of several pertinent extension sunflower production resources as reference materials and are supplemental to the presentations. The presentations will be recorded and archived.
Certified crop adviser continuing education credits will be available for meeting participants. Pre-registration is required at:
https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/ag-hub/getting-it-right
.
The program is free of charge.
Markets
Nearby prices are up 70 cents to $1.10 with 2025 new crop contracts unchanged to up 40 cents this week. Nearby prices have added $1.50-$1.75 in the past two weeks at the crush plants. USDA released its latest estimate of the 2024 US sunflower crop with production decreasing from last year. According to USDA, 2024 sunflower production totaled 1.15 billion pounds, down 49 percent from 2023. The United States average yield of 1,670 pounds per acre decreased 117 pounds from 2023. Planted area, at 720,800 acres, was 45 percent below the previous year. Area harvested decreased 46 percent from 2023 to 686,100 acres. United States production of oil-type sunflower varieties, at 947 million pounds, decreased 52 percent from 2023. Compared with the previous year, harvested acres were down 49 percent and the average yield decreased by 85 pounds to 1,664 pounds per acre. Production of non-oil sunflower varieties was estimated at 199 million pounds, a decrease of 33 percent from 2023. Area harvested, at 116,900 acres, was down 17 percent from 2023. The average yield decreased by 391 pounds from 2023. In its grain stocks report, USDA lowered old crop oil-type sunflower stocks in all positions by 3.8 million pounds from its September grain stocks report. Old crop non-oil sunflower stocks were left unchanged.
Traders will continue to digest these figures and set market direction in the weeks ahead.
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