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Sunflower Highlights

Post Date: Jun 23 2025

Crop Progress - Monday, June 23, 2025 State This Week Last Week Last Year 5 Year Average North Dakota         Planted 95 89 95 92 Emerged 76 57 72 68 South Dakota         Planted 90 70 90 91 Emerged 41 22 54 22 Minnesota         Planted 100 98 89 98 Kansas         Planted 73 56 80 77 Colorado         Planted 80 68 78 81 Texas         Planted 76 60 80 78

Crop Conditions - Monday, June 23, 2025 State Very Poor Poor Fair Good Excellent North Dakota 0 2 41 54 3 Minnesota 0 0 16 81 3 Colorado NA NA NA NA NA South Dakota NA NA NA NA NA

Grower Report

Brighton, CO area producer Tom Kirkmeyer says they started planting a little bit later than usual this year. He planted about 600 acres. The area has received an inch and a half of rain in the last week. Temperatures have been rather cool but have started to heat up into the 100’s but will cool down again later in the week.  His sunflowers have emerged and are currently about an inch tall.

Markets

Nearby prices were unchanged at the crush plants last week. It’s the busiest time of year across the sunflower growing region as farmers finish up planting spring 2025 crops and begin crop protection activities over the next few weeks. Planting is nearing the finish line for sunflowers. As of June 22, 92% of expected 2025 sunflower acreage was in the ground, up from 81% from the week prior and ahead of the five-year average of 91%. On June 30, USDA will release its latest planted acres report. In the March intentions report producers indicated they planned to increase oil acres by 62% with confection acres down 12% from last year. Traders are anxious to confirm if this change in acres occurred or is higher than USDA estimates. If the March numbers come about U.S. sunflower production is forecast to be 1.8 billion pounds, which would represent an increase of 57% from last year. The higher production is based on an increase in planted area from 720,800 to 1.07 million acres and trend yields for oil type and confection sunflowers. Oil type sunflower production is projected to increase to 1.6 billion pounds, up 70% from MY 2024/25. Look for demand news and position squaring ahead of USDA’s acreage report to guide the market this week. USDA’s acreage report will be the main driver in the market following its release.

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