There is an acreage battle underway with the current price environment. Corn, soybeans and spring wheat are competing with canola, dry edible beans and other specialty crops for acres. Proseed District Sales Manager Dave Gehrtz is also getting calls about sunflowers. “There’s tremendous interest in sunflowers. They haven’t grown them for years and Dad says he’ll never grow them again, but now you look at flowers and they’re at pretty darn good money.”
