Sunflower Highlights

Post Date: Jul 05 2022

Crop Progress - Tuesday, July 5, 2022

State	This Week	Last Week	Last Year	5 Year Average
North Dakota
Planted	97	93	98	98
Emerged	85	70	84	91
Kansas
Planted	85	77	92	91
Minnesota
Planted	97	93	100	100
Colorado
Planted	84	76	96	94
Texas
Planted	NA	81	90	88

Crop Conditions - Tuesday, July 5, 2022

State	Poor	Fair	Good	Excellent
North Dakota	0	20	79	1
Minnesota	1	25	66	8
Colorado	2	69	23	6

Consider cattail control

July to mid-August is a good time to remove blackbird roosting locations, such as marshes sloughs and cattails. Cattails serve as blackbird habitat, so it is in the sunflower producer’s best interest to cut them down or spray herbicides to get rid of them as much as possible. Visit www.ag.ndsu.edu/weeds/weed-control-guides/nd-weed-control-guide-1 for more information on using herbicides.

Grower report

Chuck Todd, producer from Onida, SD says they had no snow this winter and started out the spring dry. Planting was on time. They received 6 inches of rain during the spring, along with a lot of wind. Crops seemed to take a long time to come out of the ground this year. He comments that stock dams are still dry.

Markets

USDA released its planted acres report last week. Area planted to sunflower in 2022 totals 1.67 million acres, up 29 percent from 2021. This represents the second highest planted area for the US since 2015. Harvested area is expected to increase 29 percent from last year to 1.60 million acres. The reported acreage was welcome news to the sunflower market. Last year’s lower production coupled with the conflict in Ukraine has created strong demand for U.S. sunflower products. Planted area of oil type varieties, at 1.54 million acres, is up 31 percent from 2021, and harvested area is expected to increase 29 percent from last year to 1.49 million acres. Planted acreage of non-oil varieties, estimated at 123,000 is up 11 percent from last year. Harvested area is expected to increase 10 percent from last year to 114,700 acres. Planted acres were 18 percent higher than the agency’s March estimate of 1.42 million acres, a difference of 251,000 acres. Compared with the March planting intentions report growers added 270,000 oil type acres with confection plantings losing only 19,000 acres. The state with the largest increase from the March report is North Dakota, where planted area increased by 132,000 acres compared with March figures. Growers in five of the eight major sunflower-producing states increased sunflower acreage since the March outlook was released. With the release of the USDA report, the key to oilseed prices going forward will be U.S. summer weather and demand news.

Canada sunflower acres decrease

According to Statistics Canada data, Canadian farmers planted 93,100 acres of sunflowers this spring, which is down 8 percent from 2021. Last year Canadian farmers planted 101,400 acres of sunflower. The 2022 acreage is slightly above the five-year average of 90,125 acres. The majority of Canada’s sunflower crop is grown in Manitoba, with production also in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

FMC Makes Agreement to Acquire BioPhero

FMC Corporation has announced an agreement to acquire BioPhero, a Denmark-based pheromone research and production company. This will add BioPhero’s pheromone-based insect control technology to FMC’s portfolio. Pheromones can be used in an integrated pest management program to control the buildup of insect populations in a farmer’s fields by disrupting the insect mating process, decreasing the next generation of the target insect population. According to FMC, pheromones do not have an impact on the environment, promote biodiversity, and only target specific pests so as to not harm beneficial insects like pollinators. BioPhero has created a yeast fermentation process for manufacturing pheromones at lower costs and with fewer production steps compared to traditional chemical synthesis methods, according to FMC. Lower costs will help expand availability of the pheromones from today’s focus on specialty fruit and vegetable producers to now include the large row crop market. FMC expects to launch five new pheromone products over the next three to five years, including products that go beyond insect control, such as fungi and weeds.

Upcoming Events

August 25, 2022 - NSA High Plains Committee Meeting; Goodland, KS
January 11-12, 2023 - NSA Research Forum; Holiday Inn, Fargo, ND

Markets at a Glance

Weekly Prices Recorded on Tuesday, July 5, 2022 ($/CWT)

	Deliver	Last Year	Last Week	This Week	Change	2022 NEW Crop
Chicago Oil	Nearby	63.83	70.82	60.52	-10.30	57.42
West Fargo, ND	NuSun	28.00	41.00	36.00	-5.00	27.35
West Fargo, ND	High Oleic	28.00	43.00	38.50	-4.50	28.85
Enderlin, ND	NuSun	27.40	42.00	38.50	-3.50	29.15
Enderlin, ND	High Oleic	27.40	42.75	41.00	-1.75	30.15
Lamar, CO	High Oleic	26.20	41.75	41.25	-.50	32.50

U.S. CRUDE OIL VALUES recorded on Tuesday, July 5, 2022
(dollars per 100 lb. internal U.S. locations)

	Last Year	Last Week	This Week	Change
Soybean Oil	91.93	81.32	70.12	-11.20
Cotton Oil (pbsy)	101.83	110.82	99.62	-11.20
Corn Oil	83.00	151.00	151.00	NC

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