You can use either a drill or a planter to plant the sunflowers. We typically use a planter. We plant our sunflowers in 30 inch rows at about a depth of 1 3/4 inches. When planting sunflowers, the soil temperature needs to be at 50 degrees or more at the seed depth (1 ¾ inches).
Uses of the Sunflower Plant 1 Food Source. Raw sunflower kernels are nutritious for humans. ... 2 Oil. One acre of sunflowers can provide more oil than 1 acre of soybeans. ... 3 Cleaning Contaminated Water. Sunflower roots helped clean contaminated water in Chernobyl. ... 4 Medicinal Uses. ... 5 Other Uses. ...
We plant sunflowers on the farm because it is a good warm season broadleaf that utilizes the leftover nitrogen in the soil from the previous corn crop. The flowers are planted in between the previous year’s corn rows. We are fortunate in our area to be able to plant sunflowers as many places around us are too wet or have a problem with black birds.
An acre of sunflowers is able to produce 600 pounds of oil that can be used for cooking. Sunflower oil is also used to make soap, lubricants and candles. The oil is also used to treat skin conditions, sinusitis, hemorrhoids and leg ulcers Sunflower roots helped clean contaminated water in Chernobyl.
The common sunflower is valuable from an economic as well as from an ornamental point of view. The leaves are used as fodder, the flowers yield a yellow dye, and the seeds contain oil and are used for food.
Sunflower seeds have a white and grayish-black striped outer shell that holds a kernel ( 1 ). The kernel, or meat, of a sunflower seed is the edible part.
The sunflower head is composed of 1,000-2,000 tiny little flowers joined together at the base. These flowers are disk-shaped and can be brown, yellow or purple. During the growing season, the individual flowers are each pollinated. Seed development then begins moving from the outer rim of the flower toward the center.
Production of sunflowers subsequently rose dramatically in the Great Plains states as marketers found new niches for the seeds as an oil crop, a birdseed crop, and as a human snack food.
Sunflower seeds are planted much like corn with specialized equipment. Sunflowers are harvested using a combine that's been adapted to separate the seeds from the sunflower head and straw. Once the seeds are harvested, they are dried and run through sifting tables to remove any rocks or excess dirt.
A seedling sunflower's stem, or stalk, is made up of the Epicotyl, which is just above the first leaves (the cotyledons) of the plant, and the hypocotyl, which is below. The woody mature stems are sturdy, round, and often branch out to hold additional blooms depending on the sunflower variety.
Sunflowers are processed into cooking oil, meal and confectionary products. Distinct varieties are used for oil and for confectionary purposes. Meal is a byproduct of the oil is extraction process and is used primarily as an ingredient in livestock feed rations.
cylindricalSunflower seeds are the fruits (achenes) of the sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). The seeds are 10-15 mm long and 4 mm broad, cylindrical or drop-shaped.
Almost half of all the sunflower seeds in the world come from just two countries - Ukraine and Russia. Kansas is the “Sunflower State” and sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine.
Sunflower is one of the most important oilseed crop grown in temperate countries. It is a major source of vegetable oil in the world. In India, it has gained popularity due to the national priority of vegetable oil production. India is one of the largest producers of oilseed crop in the world.
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Approximately 25% of all sunflower seed production is used to produce birdseed. Ten – 20 percent of U.S. sunflower production is used in shelled kernels, whole seeds, and nut and fruit mixes containing sunflower seed. Kernels are also used in processed foods, such as granola bars and breads.
In contrast, Russians were using sunflowers as an oil crop by the late 18th century, perhaps because the Russian Orthodox Church did not prohibit the oil’s use during Lent.
Hybrid sunflower seed can be made by slowly, meticulously and expensively emasculating individual flowers to create females , which are then pollinated by hand. Alternatively, mutant sunflowers, incapable of producing fertile pollen, are used as female parents in hybrid crosses.
Fields of sunflowers are now a common – and beautiful – sight all over the world . They have inspired artists from Van Gogh to Klimt, and continue to do so in the age of Instagram, if the recent selfie craze is anything to go by and as one Canadian sunflower farm discovered. It was forced to shut after thousands of tourists seeking the perfect selfie caused chaos. An astonishing 7,000 vehicles caused a traffic jam stretching over four kilometers.
In 1913 seeds contained approximately 30% oil, by the late 1950s seeds contained approximately 50% oil. Much of the change was achieved by breeding for thin hulls surrounding the kernels. By the 1960s, Western commercial sunflower oil production was based on the Soviet sunflower variety “Peredovik”.
Insects are essential for producing the vast quantities of the hybrid sunflower seed planted each year, since pollen must be transferred from male-fertile to male-sterile plants. Without insects, hybrid sunflower seed production would be uneconomic.
Oil varieties of the flower have small, black, oil-rich seeds with thin hulls, which are pressed to produce an edible, almost tasteless, pale oil, rich in unsaturated fatty acids (especially oleic acid and linoleic acid). The oil is popular for cooking, margarine manufacture and even bio-diesel production.
But when sunflowers were introduced to Europe from the Americas in the early 16th century they were little more than garden novelties. The 16th-century English herbalist, John Gerard, was disappointed that the sunflowers in his Holborn garden in London were only 4.3 metres tall (those of his European competitors reached 7.3 metres).
We plant a black oil variety of sunflower called NuSun Clearfield Hybrid with Downy Mildew Resistance Trait. Basically what this means is three things.
No, there is no such thing as GM sunflowers. It may seem like it above, but these resistance traits and NuSun technologies were developed with standard hybrid breeding methods, not bioengineering.
Yes, our sunflowers are an annual crop we re-plant every year. However, as with any of our crops, no crop is planted in the same field year after year.
The vast majority of the sunflowers planted across the nation and even around the globe are grown in California. According to the National Sunflower Association, California (specifically the Sacramento Valley) produces roughly 95% of the hybrid seed planted each year by U.S. growers.
As with any row crop, uniform spacing when planting is important. You can use either a drill or a planter to plant the sunflowers. We typically use a planter. We plant our sunflowers in 30 inch rows at about a depth of 1 3/4 inches. When planting sunflowers, the soil temperature needs to be at 50 degrees or more at the seed depth (1 ¾ inches).
Oil. One acre of sunflowers can provide more oil than 1 acre of soybeans. An acre of sunflowers is able to produce 600 pounds of oil that can be used for cooking. Sunflower oil is also used to make soap, lubricants and candles. The oil is also used to treat skin conditions, sinusitis, hemorrhoids and leg ulcers.
Medicinal Uses. The roots of the sunflower plant, when made into a poultice, can be used for snakebites and spider bites. The leaves can brewed into a tea and ingested to treat fevers, lung ailments and diarrhea.
Sunflower roots helped clean contaminated water in Chernobyl. According to Botany Global Issues, sunflowers were grown on floating pieces of styrofoam and placed over the contaminated water. The sunflower’s roots removed 95 percent of the radioactivity in 24 hours.
The kernels contain 55 percent protein. Other vitamins and minerals in sunflowers include B, E and A vitamins, phosphorus, nitrogen, calcium and iron. If you remove the flowers when they are just buds, they can be cooked and eaten like artichokes. Sunflowers also provide a source of food for birds and animals.
Native Americans have used the sunflower plants for centuries. They are native to the United States and they rank as one of the four major crops of global importance. One of the unique aspects about sunflowers is that their heads follow the movement of the sun. Advertisement.