Sunflower Highlights

Post Date: May 27 2025

Crop Progress - Tuesday, May 27, 2025

State	This Week	Last Week	Last Year	5 Year Average
North Dakota
Planted	36	19	27	23
South Dakota
Planted	12	7	6	14
Kansas
Planted	14	4	15	15
Minnesota
Planted	61	44	46	47
Colorado
Planted	27	11	18	17
Texas
Planted	30	NA	37	33

Dr. Frayne Olson to Speak at Summer Seminar

The keynote speaker for the NSA Summer Seminar will be Dr. Frayne Olson. Dr. Olson will provide an overview of the current domestic and international conditions impacting crop prices. He will also provide an analysis of the relevant international trade and tariff policies impacting agriculture. Dr. Olson is the Crop Economist/Marketing Specialist with the North Dakota State University Extension, Director of the Quentin Burdick Center for Cooperatives and Professor in the Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department at NDSU. Dr. Olson conducts educational programs focusing on crop market outlook and price analysis, evaluating alternative crop marketing strategies and the economics of crop contracting.

Summer Seminar Registration to Increase June 1

The registration fee will increase to $400 on June 1 for the 2025 NSA Summer Seminar, scheduled for June 24-26, 2025, in Bismarck, North Dakota. Don’t delay and register today at: 2025 NSA Summer Seminar.

Markets

Old crop sunflower prices were up 50 cents with new crop down 15 to 75 cents at the crush plants this week. Sunflower planting continues in all states and is ahead of the five-year averages in Colorado, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Kansas, South Dakota and Texas are slightly behind the five-year average planting pace. In the past week, producers made excellent progress and planted an additional 132,000 acres pushing 2025 planted acres to about 288,700 acres. This represents 28% of this year’s projected planted acres and is ahead of the five-year average of 18%. Last year at this same time 17% of total projected acres were planted. Drier and warmer than normal weather conditions are forecast for the Dakotas and Minnesota and should allow for good planting progress in the week ahead. According to USDA’s May Oil Crops Outlook report, U.S. production of sunflower seed in 2025/26 is expected to increase as acreage intentions are up 49%. The increase from MY 2024/25 is largely driven by oil type sunflower, whereas confection sunflower area remained relatively steady. Using a trend yield of 1,766 pounds per acre, U.S. sunflower seed production is forecast to rise to 1.8 billion pounds. Oil type sunflower production represents 1.6 billion pounds of this total, up 72% from MY 2024/25. Global sunflower production in 2025/26 is forecast to increase 8 percent from the previous year to 56.2 million metric tons.

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