Sunflower Harvest Getting Underway

Sep 29, 2020

Manitoba's sunflower harvest is slowly getting started.

Ben Friesen is with Scoular Canada.

"On the confection side of it, most of the guys have been desiccating or are planning to right now...Generally, we're always thinking it will take into the second week of October and then hopefully some in the first, so we're pretty close. We're maybe just a tad ahead of schedule, just by a week or so because we've had a really good growing season."

Friesen says weather conditions have been ideal for sunflowers this year.

He notes a lot of the oilseed sunflowers won't be desiccated, with some fields still looking green at this point, and are still adding bushel weight. Friesen says so far the confection sizing in the early test fields is looking really good.

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