Sunflower Highlights

Post Date: Nov 14 2022

Crop Progress - Monday, November 14, 2022

State	This Week	Last Week	Last Year	5 Year Average
North Dakota
Harvested	91	82	81	71
South Dakota
Harvested	93	84	81	70
Minnesota
Harvested	93	87	99	87
Colorado
Harvested	73	53	79	81
Kansas
Harvested	88	78	88	80
Texas
Harvested	100	98	91	86

Seed Quality - Monday, November 14, 2022

High Plains	2022	2021	Northern Plains	2022	2021
Oil Content	40.2%	39.9%	Oil Content	44.3%	44.9%
Foreign Material	6.1%	6.9%	Foreign Material	4.1%	3.7%
Moisture	7.2%	6.5%	Moisture	8.8%	9.2%
Test Weight	29.0 lbs.	29.2 lbs.	Test Weight	30.3 lbs.	32.3 lbs.

Grower Report

Onida, South Dakota grower Chuck Todd has finished harvesting. Even with the spring hail damage his yields averaged 2600 lbs. Farmers in surrounding areas averaged 2200-3000 lbs. The test weights were 31.5 lbs. with a moisture level of 8.5 %. He says he saw more seed weevil damage then he initially anticipated.

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Markets

Nearby NuSun and high oleic prices at the crush plants were down 25 cents to unchanged last week. Overall, NuSun and high oleic prices continue to trade 75 to 90 cents per cwt. lower than the 60-day moving average at the ND crush plants. 2023 new crop was unchanged to up 50 cents. USDA released its latest supply and demand reports last week. USDA put soybean production at 4.346 billion bushels, above the trade’s expectation of 4.324 billion bushels and the October estimate of 4.313 billion bushels. In addition, U.S. ending soybean stocks were raised to 220 million bushels, above the trade’s expectation of 215 million bushels and USDA’s October estimate of 200 million bushels. The increase in yield and stocks for soybeans were a surprise as traders expected little to no change. Rain and snow events slowed harvest in the past week. Despite the weather sunflower producers did make good harvest progress. Harvest progress advanced 9% to 92% complete for the week ending November 13. In the past week, producers harvested an additional 139,530 acres pushing 2022 harvested acres to about 1,415,395 acres. Last year at this same time about 81% of acres were harvested. Harvest progress remains 21% ahead of the five-year average. All eyes are now on global uncertainty with the Black Sea grain corridor agreement expiring on November 19, and upcoming crop weather conditions in South America as their crop is nearly finished being planted.

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