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The right flowers to pick.
Get the best sunflower seed genetics for your operation. With the newest traits and insights, backed by our extensive North American Answer Plot® testing, WinField United brings you the best sunflower hybrids with high yield and oil-premium potential and diverse genetics to match your marketing objectives.
Why add CROPLAN® sunflowers to your crop rotation?
CROPLAN® sunflower seed features the newest traits and insights, helping you manage disease and weeds based on field specific requirements to maximize your sunflower crop yield potential.
Weed Resistance
A great weed-resistance tool when rotating herbicides.
Insects and Disease
Disrupt insect and disease patterns when rotated with wheat and corn.
Nutrient Use
Maximize nutrient use with a deep root system that reaches nutrients washed too deep for other crops.
Drought Tolerance
Greater drought tolerance than corn, soybeans, canola and many other crops.
Time Management
Help spread out farm labour workload and equipment use.
Growing CROPLAN® sunflower crops
Grow CROPLAN® sunflower crops for the latest sunflower seed genetics with the perfect traits for your farm. Your local WinField United Canada retailer will help select the best sunflower seed for your operation along with the right fungicides and herbicides for your soil conditions.
Choose the right sunflower seed traits
Seed Size
Optimizing plant-to-plant spacing is important, and seed size can play a role in achieving correct spacing and population of sunflower crops.
Prosun™ Precise Seed Coating
Prosun™ precise seed coating (available on many CROPLAN® sunflower varieties) offers more seed size options, more consistent seed size, uniformity in stand establishment and even growth for optimal weed, disease and insect management.
DuPont™ ExpressSun® Trait
Enjoy good yield control options, with a Group 2 herbicide mode of action. This trait provides tolerance to Express® herbicide, for advanced yield potential.
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Oil Content
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- High yield potential for early maturity.
- Shorter plant height with great standability in higher populations; very uniform.
- DMR Pl 8; resistant to all common races of downy mildew.
- Great for birdseed and dehull markets.
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Oil Content
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- High oleic top performing sunflower with excellent yield potential.
- Widely adapted across regions and field conditions.
- Medium plant with excellent drydown.
- DMR Pl 6; resistant to most common races of downy mildew.
2024 CROPLAN® Product Guide
The 2024 CROPLAN® Product Guide is now available, offering a broad selection of hybrids and seed varieties specially adapted to local conditions. Download a copy today.