Sunflower
and food manufacturers alike for a healthy and high performance non-transgenic
vegetable oil.
Sunflower plantings, production, and supply and
disappearance activities throughout the world are ever-
changing. Statistics provide persons with a vested interest in
the industry a foundation of where we've been in order to
help us understand where we need to go. Use the Sunflower
Statistics section as a resource for data on a global, national,
and state-level perspective.
Meal/Wholeseed Feeding
Sunflower meal is the by-product of the oil extraction process. Oil is the majority value
of sunflower seed and meal is considered a by-product. Sunflower meal is an excellent
livestock feed, especially for ruminants. For the last several years, the supply of U.S.
sunflower meal has been somewhat inconsistent. That is changing as the domestic market
for sunflower oil increases.
September the fields and roadsides of the Great Plains erupt in a blaze of yellow as the