Specialty crops, including canola, barley, sunflowers and flax is stealing acres away from corn, soybeans and spring wheat in North Dakota. The planted area for canola in North Dakota is expected to break the all-time record set last year. That’s a one percent increase, which represents 10,000 more acres of canola. North Dakota barley acreage is forecast to increase 28 percent. Oil-type sunflower acreage in North Dakota is up 17 percent and confection sunflower acreage increased a whopping 85 percent. The planted area for flax increased 32 percent from 2021. North Dakota dry bean acres are down two percent.
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