Sunflower Highlights
Post Date: Oct 02 2023
Crop Progress - Monday, October 2, 2023
State This Week Last Week Last Year 5 Year Average
North Dakota        
Petals Dry 95 93 95 97
Bracts Yellow 85 78 88 89
Mature 59 41 52 63
South Dakota        
Bracts Yellow 88 90 -- --
Mature 51 71 -- --
Harvested 1 20 2 3
Minnesota        
Harvested 5 -- -- 8
Texas        
Harvested 75 70 81 71
Kansas        
Harvested 23 11 4 5
Colorado        
Harvested -- -- 1 3
Crop Conditions - Monday, October 2, 2023
State Timeframe Very Poor Poor Fair Good Excellent
North Dakota This week 3 8 28 52 9
  Last week 1 8 30 53 8
Minnesota This week 0 3 44 52 1
  Last week 0 4 43 52 1
Colorado This week 1 3 12 80 4
  Last week 0 4 13 80 3
South Dakota This week 2 5 43 47 3
  Last week 1 4 43 50 2
Call for Papers
We are looking for research papers to be presented at the NSA Research Forum, set for January 10-11, 2024, in Fargo, ND. Presentations may be either oral or in the form of a poster. A time will be designated for authors to be with their posters and answer questions. Each oral presentation will be limited to 15-17 minutes with 2-3 minutes allowed for questions. Visit 2024 Call for Papers (sunflowernsa.com) if you are interested in presenting a paper. You do not have to submit the actual paper or poster at this time, just the information indicated online and the author information. Submissions must be completed by December 11, 2023.
Markets
Sunflower prices at the crush plants are feeling the spillover effect from weakness in global sunflower seed and oil values. Vegetable oil prices have trended downward as the result of ample supplies, especially sunflower oil on the global market. Strong selling pressure from Black Sea region sunflower oil has been the major bearish factor in the vegetable oil market. Key buyers such as China and India are sitting on large oil inventories, and this is adding further pressure to oil values. Last week USDA released its latest grain stocks report. USDA pegged old crop sunflower stocks in all positions on September 1, 2023, at 367 million pounds, up 25 percent from a year ago. All stocks stored on farms totaled 142.6 million pounds and off-farm stocks totaled 224.6 million pounds. Stocks of oil type sunflower seed are 340 million pounds; of this total, 137 million pounds are on-farm stocks, and 203.2 million pounds are off-farm stocks. Non-oil sunflower stocks totaled 27 million pounds, with 5.6 million pounds stored on the farm and 21.4 million pounds stored off the farm. Stocks of oil type sunflower seed were 53 percent higher than last year. Non-oil stocks were down 62 percent from last year. Both figures were within average industry estimates. On October 12, USDA will give its first estimate of 2023 US harvested sunflower acres and total seed production.
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