# Sunflowers fight for acres in crowded Manitoba fields - Grainews

> Manitoba sunflower growers expect to compete with soybeans and corn for acres in 2017, despite better contract prices. Confection contracts are around 30 cents per pound and oilseed bids around 24 cents, both up from last year. Canadian sunflower area was 68,000 acres in 2016.

- Date: 2017-02-09 · published 2017-02-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region Canada · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/72619-sunflowers-fight-for-acres-in-crowded-manitoba-fields-grainews
- Commodities: [Sunflower Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SUNMEAL.md)

## Why it matters

Competition from soybeans and corn could cut sunflower acres, which would reduce supply of sunflower meal in Canada. Higher prices may partly offset that effect.

## Sources

- grainews.ca: https://www.grainews.ca/daily/sunflowers-fight-for-acres-in-crowded-manitoba-fields/

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