When the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency released its first round of data on certified crop acres for the 2025 growing season on Aug. 1, the numbers held a surprise for sunflowers ...

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Sunflowers were his wife Babbette's favorite flowers. — -- Babbette Jaquish loved a lot of flowers, but sunflowers were her favorite. So when she passed away from cancer at 66 last November, her ...

I was exercising at the pool a few weeks ago and talked to a lady who asked me about sunflower care. One of the reasons she said she liked sunflowers is that their care is relatively easy. She also ...

Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of New World, native peoples was their domestication, cultivation and improvement of many native plants they encountered when migrating through and settling ...

To visit the 2025 version of this story, click here. The sun will come out at some point, in the sky and in the field. The region’s first big sunflower field started blooming in late July, bringing in ...

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 from ...

Two climate activists made a splash this morning. The protesters representing Just Stop Oil, an organization that seeks to halt oil and gas extraction in Britain, launched glugs of Heinz tomato soup ...

New UC Davis research shows how an internal circadian clock controls the opening of individual florets in concentric rings in the sunflower head. This helps attract pollinating insects. (Jason Spyres) ...

These cheerful flowers don't always make the best neighbors. Sunflowers need full sun but can shade or stunt nearby plants with natural compounds. Keep potatoes, beans, and rhubarb away due to shared ...

The month of August is considered the peak growing season for sunflowers, which is why National Sunflower Day is a perfect ...

As in four puzzlingly prophetic poems, labeled “Suffering Servant” by Bernhard Duhm, in Deutero-Isaiah we learn that the ...