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Sunflower Crop Survey

The Sunflower Crop Survey is conducted bi-annually prior to harvest. Volunteers from all levels of the sunflower industry visit sunflower fields to survey the crop condition. Teams survey for yield and production practices, weeds, insects, diseases and bird damage. The Sunflower Crop Survey link will take you to a web site with historical and state information. Also of particular interest are PowerPoint presentations which you can download and print for closer review of the results. To access those files, click on the file names below to download the PowerPoint file that describes the results from the year indicated. NOTE: These files are very large and may take a bit of time to download.

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USA Sunflower Survey Maps (link) Each survey location is GPS'd and maps have been developed for locations of incidence. This link takes you to a NDSU site.

2025 National Sunflower Production Survey: Yield, Management Practices and Diseases file size: 7347 kb Ana Carcedo, NDSU, Department of Plant Sciences, Fargo, ND

2025 National Sunflower Production Survey: Insects file size: 7857 kb Jarrad Prasifka, USDA-ARS, Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center, Sunflower Improvement Research Unit, Fargo, ND

2023 NSA Crop Survey: Yield, Management Practices and Diseases file size: 6430 kb

2023 NSA Crop Survey: Insects file size: 5423 kb

2021 NSA Crop Survey: Yield and Management Practices file size: 6751 kb

2021 NSA Crop Survey: Insects file size: 6100 kb

2019 NSA Crop Survey: Yield and Management Practices file size: 1651 kb

2019 NSA Crop Survey: Diseases file size: 4749 kb

2019 NSA Crop Survey: Insects file size: 5723 kb

2017 NSA Crop Survey file size: 6491 kb 2017 NSA Crop Survey

2015 NSA Crop Survey file size: 2775 kb

2013 NSA Crop Survey (PDF format) file size: 88 kb

2012 NSA Crop Survey file size: 4574 kb 2012 NSA Crop Survey (pdf format)

2011 NSA Crop Survey (PDF format) file size: 178 kb

2010 NSA Crop Survey (PDF format) file size: 1542 kb

2009 NSA Crop Survey (PDF format) file size: 80 kb

2008 NSA Crop Survey (PDF format)  file size: 182 kb

2007 NSA Crop Survey (PDF format) file size: 211 kb

2006 NSA Crop Survey (PDF format) file size: 2092 kb

2006 NSA Crop Survey (narrative research) file size: 366 kb