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Central Queensland sunflower growers are shifting toward alternative markets after AWB ended its seed rebate and hectare-based contracts for monounsaturated crushing sunflowers. Confectionery and birdseed types rose from about 5% to 26% of Australian production.
Feed millers supplying the horse feed trade on the Darling Downs may face a shortage of black sunflower seed.
Reduced crushing-type production in Australia tightens local black sunflower seed supply for specialty feed rations. The effect on world oilseed and meal prices is small.
queenslandcountrylife.com.auCindy BenjaminJan 21, 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.
