Welcome to the National Sunflower
Association of Canada’s Official Website
The National Sunflower Association of Canada (NSAC) is a national, non-for profit, producer-funded organization that works on behalf of the sunflower growers of Canada to promote and expand the industry, both internationally and domestically. The NSAC represents approximately 600 producers of both confectionary and oilseed sunflowers throughout the Prairie Provinces.
The mission of the NSAC is to “ensure the profitability and long term growth of the sunflower crop through industry wide leadership.” Our focus is to improve members’ profitability from sunflowers through broadened access to sunflower markets and giving leadership and focus to research and development based on consumer demand.
Latest News & Events
Corgan Registered for use on Sunflowers
Posted: May 8, 2013
April 10, 2013 - Coragen® Insecticide Provides Broad-Spectrum and Residual Control of Many Pests
Powered by Rynaxypyr®, DuPont™ Coragen® is from a whole new group of chemistry (Group 28) with no cross-resistance to other chemistries. As such, it provides excellent control of pest populations that are resistant to other insecticides. It controls hatching insects all the way through to adult stages of development and is easy on bees and beneficials.
Coragen® is now registered for use on canola and sunflowers and is also registered for use on: brassica vegetables, cucurbit vegetables, corn (field, sweet, seed, pop), fodder and hay, fruiting vegetables, grass forage, greenhouse vegetables, leafy vegetables, mint, non-grass animal feeds, okra, potatoes, tuberous and corm vegetables. The broad-spectrum and residual control attributes of Coragen® make it a great tool in managing the quality of these many crops.
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Sourced from: DuPont Canada website.
2013 MB Sunflower Surveillance Survey
Posted: May 8, 2013
As spring slowly rolls out, I wanted to take the opportunity to update our membership and surveillance participants on the format of our 2013 Sunflower Surveillance Survey. Due to financial constraints with reduced acres, the Board of Directors has decided to postpone the hiring of a new agronomist until 2014. The lack of a full-time agronomist will reduce our surveillance reporting and scouting capabilities for this year.
For this summer, the NSAC along with MAFRI have hired Danitra Warkentin who will focus 60% of her time on sunflowers. This will include surveillance of the sunflower crop throughout Manitoba with reports prepared twice a month. Growers interested in signing up their fields for the surveillance survey, please email (info@canadasunflower.com) with their sunflower field legal land description.
The Survey is scheduled to start upon emergence of the sunflower crop and continuing through to August. The NSAC office will be available for questions and can field calls with concerns. The NSAC has a good working relationship with a number of specialists and can assist with any questions. Office: (204) 745-6776
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Ag-Chieve Free Grain Marketing Strategies Webinars
Posted: November 18, 2012
Ag-Chieve will be providing a series of free online meetings throughout the winter exploring how western Canadian farmers can find balance in the short term & long term grain market trends. You will gain an understanding of the importance of using technical analysis to pick target areas for short term sales, using the fundamentals and long term charts to forecast the markets for the long term, and analyzing cash and basis prices. Join us to learn how to make extra $ per bushel on short term decisions and an in-depth look at whether there could be a big payoff to holding production into the winter or spring 2013. Free online registration at http://www.ag-chieve.ca/free
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