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Mark R.

10-08-2001 06:42:10




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I am looking to next year plant some sunflowers, I'm looking for some info on planters and what to harvest these with (no combine ). Is there anything out there to get the seeds off the flowers? Any info would be appreciated




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john d

10-09-2001 22:37:38




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 Re: harvesting sunflowers in reply to Mark R., 10-08-2001 06:42:10  
A combine is the way to harvest them.

We grew 18 acres of them once about 23 or 24 years ago. Fun crop; plant them with a corn planter (put them in just deep enough to barely cover the seed) and stand back!

We had bees by the bazillions that summer, and airplanes would detour to get a better look at that field when it was in bloom.

My cousin harvested them with an IH 615 combine and the place where we were going to market them (oil seed sunflowers) was closed by the FDA just days before we were to deliver. Ended up trucking them from central IN to Duluth. No profit on that crop that summer, but it was fun.

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Tim(nj)

10-08-2001 17:28:58




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 Re: harvesting sunflowers in reply to Mark R., 10-08-2001 06:42:10  
You can use any corn planter, so long as it's got the right plates for sunflowers (a plateless vacuum planter would be ideal, but probably way too expensive for what you want to do). You can also plant sunflowers with a grain drill. Just block off some openers to get a wider spacing. Not as accurate as a planter, but might do an acceptable job. As far as harvesting, with no combine, there just isn't really much of an option.

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TomH

10-08-2001 16:48:01




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 Re: harvesting sunflowers in reply to Mark R., 10-08-2001 06:42:10  
I tried running sunflower heads through an old hand cranked corn sheller one time. That doesn't work, trust me.



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