Sunflower Highlights

Post Date: May 12 2025

Registration is now open for our 2025 NSA Summer Seminar, scheduled for June 24-26, 2025. This year’s Summer Seminar will be held in Bismarck, North Dakota. You can register on our website – go to 2025 NSA Summer Seminar You’ll find our tentative schedule too, as well as hotel information and more. Pre-registration will begin at $375 and golf at $130, so register early for the best price. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Radisson Hotel Bismarck. To reserve your room, call 701-255-6000 or online
https://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/du92l1. The rate is $129.00 per night plus taxes. The block of rooms will expire on May 23, 2025. The program is being finalized and more information will be coming soon. Contact Tina Mittelsteadt at tinam@sunflowernsa.com with questions.

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With another production season upon us, we at the National Sunflower Association likewise have begun planning for the next publishing season of 'The Sunflower' magazine. As always, our goal with the magazine is to provide news and articles of real interest and use to our readership which consists mainly of sunflower producers around the U.S. and Canada. Our goal, of course, is to provide information that our readers won't find elsewhere. Would you please aid us in this endeavor; over the coming weeks and months, by suggesting potential topics or persons to interview for articles? We rely upon folks such as yourself for story 'leads' and would be grateful for any suggestions you can pass along. Submit your ideas to: johns@sunflowernsa.com Thanks very much for helping us to keep 'The Sunflower' out-front in providing timely, interesting - and useful - information for its thousands of readers.

Markets

Nearby sunflower prices continue to trade above the 60-day moving average price at the crush plants. This week nearby prices were unchanged to up 25 cents with new crop unchanged at the crush plants. If you are concerned about the weather impacting yields, plants are still offering Act of God (AOG) new crop contracts for fall delivery. On the CBoT, Brazil’s record breaking harvest and U.S. planting progress is making it hard for prices to find any forward momentum right now. The brisk planting progress is boosting trader’s thoughts on prospects for historically high acreage and a record harvest. Traders are also on the lookout for fresh headlines regarding U.S.-China trade relations. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with their Chinese counterparts in Switzerland on the weekend to discuss economic and trade matters. The report boosted hopes that the two sides may reach some kind of agreement to dial back steep tariffs that have fueled worries over recession. This week USDA will release the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report for May, which includes the first detailed forecast for 2025-26 production of corn, wheat and soybeans. WASDE news, weather and planting progress will be the main price determining factors in the week ahead.

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