What’s next for sunflowers in 2024? - Farm Progress
Nov 21, 2023 · Sunflower oil consumption in the U.S. has increased 50% in the past five years. With that trend showing no sign of slowing down, the sunflower market should be aggressive in 2024 to get acres to meet growing demand.
Why Sunflowers in These Videos Don't Face the Sun
Aug 19, 2024 · The sunflowers in the viral videos are mature sunflowers, not juveniles. Although those sunflowers used to track the sun in the sky, they stopped upon reaching maturity to face east.
How sunflowers 'see' the sun: Study describes a novel mechanism - Phys.org
Oct 31, 2023 · Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers "see" the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at the University of California ...
Why young sunflowers follow the sun | Science - AAAS
Aug 4, 2016 · Every day, young sunflowers follow the sun like spectators at an incredibly slow tennis match. But scientists have never known why, or why the tracking stops when they become adults. Now, a new study suggests that this daily sun worship is guided by circadian rhythms during development.
How sunflowers see the sun - ScienceDaily
Oct 31, 2023 · Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers 'see' the sun to follow it? Plant biologists show that they use a different, novel mechanism...
Why Scientists Are Gathering Seeds From Roadside Sunflowers
Oct 5, 2015 · Sunflowers are actually a valuable global crop, grown for the oil their seeds produce. But like many crops, experts worry about how climate change will affect their growth.
Watch: Farmer plants massive sunflower field in surprise gift for …
Jul 30, 2023 · A farmer in the US has planted a massive field of sunflowers as a surprise gift for his wife. Lee Wilson told local media in Kansas that he planted 1.2 million sunflowers on 80 acres of land...
How Sunflowers See the Sun - UC Davis
October 31, 2023. News. Plant biologist Stacey Harmer studies how sunflowers are able to follow the sun. Her new research shows that sunflowers respond to the sun through a previously unknown mechanism.
Actuality: Sunflower Harvest Update - USDA
2 days ago · Date: Tue, 11/12/2024 Broadcast: 16 . Remark: USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey, with an update on the sunflower harvest.. Duration: 00:00:22.872 . Author: GCRAWFOR . MP3:
Sunflowers in bloom - CBS News
Sunflowers in bloom. For two weeks around Labor Day, Ted and Kris Grinter's farm in Lawrence, Kansas becomes a mecca for sunflower lovers from near and far. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with...