# Sunflower prices down 10%

> Oil-type sunflower seed prices are about 10% lower than a year earlier, under pressure from large old-crop stocks that were 40% above the prior year on March 1, the highest since 2006. USDA projects 2017-18 global sunflower output at 46.1 million tonnes, up 1%.

- Date: 2017-06-07 · published 2017-06-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/70614-sunflower-prices-down-10
- Commodities: [Sunflower Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SUNMEAL.md), [Soybean Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBO.md)

## Why it matters

Heavy US and global sunflower stocks keep meal and oil prices under pressure, although expected domestic crush growth of 11% supports demand for sunflower products.

## Read by commodity

- SBO: neutral
- SUNMEAL: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SBO | 2023-10-26 | [W42: Sunflower Update](https://feedsoft.ai/events/33755-w42-sunflower-update.md) | -1.7% | +7.4% |
| SBO | 2019-04-02 | [Plant more sunflower acres this year](https://feedsoft.ai/events/59714-plant-more-sunflower-acres-this-year.md) | +1.1% | -3.5% |
| SBO | 2023-02-21 | [W7: Weekly Sunflower Oil Update](https://feedsoft.ai/events/37436-w7-weekly-sunflower-oil-update.md) | -1.9% | -5.1% |
| SBO | 2019-10-21 | [Despite the slowdown in production prices for rapeseed fall](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56670-despite-the-slowdown-in-production-prices-for-rapeseed-fall.md) | +2.0% | +0.2% |
| SBO | 2024-12-12 | [Sunflower prices in Ukraine rose amid supply shortages, but pressure on them increased as production forecast increased in USDA report](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27069-sunflower-prices-in-ukraine-rose-amid-supply-shortages-but-pressure-on-them.md) | -2.8% | +0.7% |

## Sources

- farmprogress.com: https://www.farmprogress.com/crops/sunflower-prices-down-10-

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