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Crop progress for the week ending July 31, 2017 showed 91% of Minnesota's sunflower crop in good to excellent condition and 66% of Kansas's rated good to excellent. Blooming was ahead of last year in North Dakota and South Dakota, and Texas harvest had begun.
A proposed $250,000 appropriation would fund aircraft to repel blackbirds from sunflower fields.
Crop condition ratings in the Northern Plains are weak in North Dakota and South Dakota, which points to a smaller US sunflower crop and firmer meal and oil supply. The blackbird funding is a minor cost-side item.
sunflowernsa.comJul 31, 2017Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
