The voluntary assessment paid by producers for sunflowers sold in Kansas will increase starting Sept. 1.
In April of this year, the eight-member Kansas Sunflower Commission voted to increase the check-off from three to five cents per hundred-weight of sunflowers.
The assessment rate has been three cents per hundred since inception of the Commission in 2002. Kansas’s law gives the Commission authority to assess up to six cents per hundredweight.
The law also provides that producers who wish to receive a refund of the assessment may simply provide evidence of the assessment charges within on year of sale.
Voluntary check-off dollars are used for promotion of the commodity and its products as well as research on variety of issues related to sunflower production.
“We really need to help our Kansas producers find some solutions to the barriers on sunflower production, particularly weed control, “ said Karl Esping, Kansas Sunflower Commission Chair.
We have a great opportunity here in Kansas to increase both full-season and double-crop sunflowers but producers have to have the tools and markets to make that a profitable venture. Producers check-off dollars will be spent wisely providing them with benefits for sunflower production.”
The Kansas Department of agriculture will be sending notification, new paperwork and forms to all first purchasers around the state prior to this year’s harvest.
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The voluntary assessment paid by producers for sunflowers sold in Kansas will increase starting Sept. 1.
In April of this year, the eight-member Kansas Sunflower Commission voted to increase the check-off from three to five cents per hundred-weight of sunflowers.
The assessment rate has been three cents per hundred since inception of the Commission in 2002. Kansas’s law gives the Commission authority to assess up to six cents per hundredweight.
The law also provides that producers who wish to receive a refund of the assessment may simply provide evidence of the assessment charges within on year of sale.
Voluntary check-off dollars are used for promotion of the commodity and its products as well as research on variety of issues related to sunflower production.
“We really need to help our Kansas producers find some solutions to the barriers on sunflower production, particularly weed control, “ said Karl Esping, Kansas Sunflower Commission Chair.
We have a great opportunity here in Kansas to increase both full-season and double-crop sunflowers but producers have to have the tools and markets to make that a profitable venture. Producers check-off dollars will be spent wisely providing them with benefits for sunflower production.”
The Kansas Department of agriculture will be sending notification, new paperwork and forms to all first purchasers around the state prior to this year’s harvest.
