MN: STATE’S SUNFLOWER GROWERS APPROVE COMMODITY CHECK-OFF

News Date January 05, 2010

Farmer members of the Minnesota Sunflower Growers Research and Promotion Council have voted to approve their first promotional check-off program. The sunflower growers voted 53 to 46 to approve a check-off amount of 4 cents per hundredweight. The check-off rate will become effective during the next growing season.

Minnesota’s sunflower growers began the process of establishing a research and promotion council last spring to help promote their commodity. Minnesota has several research and promotion councils dedicated to promoting and stimulating the use, sale and consumption of commodities and to improve methods of production, processing and marketing. (Contact: allen.sommerfeld@state.mn.us)