Paula Mohr
PAST AND CURRENT GROWERS NEEDED: NDSU and the National Sunflower Association are asking all growers, past and current, to complete a voluntary, confidential survey about the crop and pest damage caused by blackbirds. North Dakota State University scientists want to learn about blackbird damage in sunflowers.
North Dakota State University researchers and the National Sunflower Association are asking past and current sunflower growers to participate in a survey that focuses on crop damage caused by blackbirds.
Blackbirds have been a longtime avian pest in sunflowers. Research on evaluating and mitigating damages caused by blackbirds has been going on since the 1980s. NDSU graduate students Mallory White and Morgan Donaldson and colleagues are seeking to update data.
NDSU Extension Updates Sunflower Production Guide
Hans Kandel
North Dakota growers continue to be the No. 1 producers of sunflowers in the U.S., harvesting 715,000 acres of the crop in 2020.
Sunflowers are harvested for oil, confection uses and bird food. Each sunflower variety has distinctive agronomic characteristics that producers should consider when selecting a hybrid to grow.
“Choosing a hybrid and using proper agronomic practices are important decisions a producer makes in raising a successful crop,” says Hans Kandel, a North Dakota State University Extension agronomist and co-editor of NDSU Extension’s recently revised “Sunflower Production Guide” (A1995).
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Maturity - Some hybrids can mature 10 or more days later than others.
Winnipeg Free Press
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Besides its role selling grain, the CWB loomed large in almost every part of the cereal value chain. (Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press files)
It’s been interesting to watch how Western Canada’s grain industry has sorted itself out since the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) lost its single desk status and was privatized nearly a decade ago.
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It’s been interesting to watch how Western Canada’s grain industry has sorted itself out since the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) lost its single desk status and was privatized nearly a decade ago.
GREAT BEND TRIBUNE Cover Your Acres Winter Conference goes virtual Stacy Campbell
K-State Research and Extension will host the 18th annual Cover Your Acres Winter Conference for crop producers and consultants from 1 to 5 p.m. (CST) on Tuesday, Jan. 19 in an online format.
Cover Your Acres is a producer-driven meeting focused on new ideas and research-based updates in crop production in northwest Kansas and the central High Plains region.
The conference, which typically draws more than 400 attendees from Kansas and other states, highlights the latest technology, methods, and conservation practices to improve crop production in the region. This year it will feature a shorter, half-day format with university specialists discussing the following topics: