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Anybody on here grow sunflowers? Thought about it for fun just to see if I could! Could I harvest them with my gleaner k2? Any info would be great!
 
I used to combine a lot of flowers. Any combine will thresh them, the pans to collect the heads of the flowers are what is hard to come by. Don't know where you are at, I have used pans in E SD. Using a reel and straight head will waste too many heads to make it work.
 
(quoted from post at 07:39:33 04/15/15) Anybody on here grow sunflowers? Thought about it for fun just to see if I could! Could I harvest them with my gleaner k2? Any info would be great!
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I have been growing 1/2 an acre in two location. Only hand pick enough heads to plant again the next year. I have a mix of big strips (10/12 footers) and the little black one that mostly are sold for bird seed. I started out doing it for the birds but soon found out it cuts my mowing time. My patches will get bigger. It is pretty neat watching the finches come, then the doves, then the Hawks. I leave everything stand till the next spring.
 
Yes, you can harvest with your Gleaner. I did an internship for Elanco and we were testing herbicides and we had lots of test plots that I harvested with our Gleaner.

I grow sunflowers on our farm but not on a large scale. Just to attract wildlife and butter flys. Hey, happy wife means happy life:)
 
I'm in pennsylvania are the pans the triangle things I have seen un load mountain term to a straight cut head? I dont know anything about them except people grow them in thier garden around me no large scale at all!
 
I grew a test plot for UW here some years back the birds ATE them all in 5 days, mine were 5'-8" high and had 12" or so heads lol
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My renter planted 25 acres on my farm in 2004, We made very little money and did not try again. One problem was weed control. They are a pretty crop with the heads facing east in morning and west in afternoon. I think these were the large gray seeds and one head per plant. He harvested with a M F 550 Wheat following made a record yield
 
(quoted from post at 15:39:33 04/15/15) Anybody on here grow sunflowers? Thought about it for fun just to see if I could! Could I harvest them with my gleaner k2? Any info would be great!
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Friend of mine grew sunflowers for several years. Why he quit I don't know. Might've been because there was only one elevator in the area that was set up to handle them. He used a IH 915 with a Wylie pan header.
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We grow a small strip about 12' x 80' just for the birds and looks. This year it is a mix of the large heads and black oil seeds (bird feeder type). Also doing two separate plantings about a month apart to get flowers longer. The goldfinches love them.
 
I grew a few from black oils seeds bought for bird feed. Worked pretty good until harvest time and birds got all of them. I'm curious about the pans you are using.I have an AC66 - does that mean the heads won't go up the canvas.Also what kind of seed are you using and where did you get it?
 
Neighbor used to grow them and had issues with harvest. They wouldn't dry down good enough without spraying them with roundup because the plant hung on forever. The other issue he had was setting his combine on fire during harvest. Really dusty and had to put out several fires. He finally gave up and went back to growing hay. Maybe he was doing something wrong. I Don't know.

Greg
 
casenutty what brand of seed and herbicide are you using those look just like the type I want to grow for the dove fields. thanks
 
We grow organic tobacco and plant sunflowers in the sled rows to attract beneficial insects. It also looks nice and is appreciated by our land owners. Lots of folks will stop and cut a few here for their houses. They are usually about done flowering when we start harvest and the trailers mash them flat and keep anything else from growing till the end of the season. I plant them with an old John Deere FB B grain drill.
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Charlie,
I don’t have any experience with trying the draper style combines on sunflowers so can’t really comment.
I made my pans from scratch.
I bought my seeds from Seeds2000. I think they’ve been bought out and are now Nuseed. I’ve tried several different varieties but all are blackoil. Last time I tried a Clearfield variety that can be sprayed with Beyond herbicide.
Tim
 
the seed was supplied buy UW for a test grow, ( sorry I have no idea the brand) I used no herbicides I did cultivate them twice to control weeds
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. Tim, I just joined. I'm wanting to find out more on harvesting sunflowers with the AC 72. I can't get the private message to work for you.
 
(quoted from post at 05:46:15 08/29/23) . Tim, I just joined. I'm wanting to find out more on harvesting sunflowers with the AC 72. I can't get the private message to work for you.
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You can contact me at [email protected] but its been a few years since I did sunflowers. The AC72's have since been sold a few years ago as well. Ive pretty much retired from harvesting crops at this point but you can contact me.
Tim
 
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