Sunflower Highlights

Post Date: Jun 09 2025

Crop Progress - Monday, June 9, 2025

State	This Week	Last Week	Last Year	5 Year Average
North Dakota
Planted	75	59	71	64
Emerged	29	15	19	26
South Dakota
Planted	43	23	49	52
Emerged	2	NA	10	4
Kansas
Planted	37	23	42	40
Minnesota
Planted	95	79	65	79
Colorado
Planted	47	35	40	43
Texas
Planted	50	36	52	61

Grower report

Regent, ND area producer Josh Greff says he is done planting this year’s sunflower crop. His planting conditions this year were pretty good. It started out dry, but then they received 4.5-5 inches of rain in the middle of May. Josh says his temps have remained cool, but he wouldn’t mind a little heat.

Registration continues for the 2025 NSA Summer Seminar, scheduled for June 24-26, 2025. This year’s Summer Seminar will be held in Bismarck, North Dakota. You can register on our website – go to 2025 NSA Summer Seminar. You’ll find our schedule as well as hotel information and more. The program has been finalized and is on the website. Registration is $400 and golf at $160 and will increase at the door. To make your hotel reservation, call 701-255-6000 opt 2 for guest services. Contact Tina Mittelsteadt at tinam@sunflowernsa.com with questions.

Markets

Nearby prices were up 10 to 50 cents with new crop down 15 cents to unchanged this week at the crush plants. This week USDA releases its latest supply and demand report. The USDA figures are expected to be closely aligned with trade expectations that have been priced into the market. Traders will likely continue to grapple with supplies showing up on the balance sheet as the marketing year unfolds but are more concerned with weather conditions in the U.S. in the near term. Sunflower producers are in the home stretch of wrapping up this year’s planting season. Planting continues in all states and is slightly ahead of the five-year averages in Colorado, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Kansas, South Dakota, and Texas are slightly behind the five-year average planting pace. In the past week, producers made excellent progress and planted an additional 177,540 acres pushing 2025 planted acres to about 641,500 acres. This represents 62% of this year’s projected planted acres and is ahead of the five-year average of 56%. Last year at this same time 59% of total projected acres were planted. Weather conditions are expected to continue to be favorable in the next two weeks for planting. On June 30, USDA will release its 2025 planted acres report and will be an important factor in determining old and new crop prices. Look for demand news and position squaring ahead of USDA’s acreage report to guide the market this week.

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