Farmers grow more than 50 million tons of sunflower seeds every year. The black ones end up in our bird feeders, as well as ...

The seeds are harvested from the plant’s large flower heads ... Those used for extracting sunflower oil have solid black shells. Sunflower seeds have a mild, nutty flavor and a firm but tender ...

If any of these apply to you, consider planting sunflowers in your ... Oilseed sunflowers are cultivated for their oil and ...

which is made up of plant oils, rendered animal fats and recycled cooking oil collected from restaurants and food-service operations. With one year of sunflower harvesting under his belt ...