Sunflowers south of Alice

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12:17a, 5/21/10

AG

There must be 4,000 acres of sunflowers just south of Alice. Ive never seen them as a crop before. Anybody know anything about them.

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10:07a, 5/21/10

It's where they get the seeds you eat, loco. Duh.

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10:10a, 5/21/10

Yep. They make Sunflower Seeds out of them.

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10:46a, 5/21/10

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I kinda knew that. I'd just never seen them as a crop in South Texas before.

Of course I've only driven 281 through there hundreds of times over 50 or so years, so maybe I'm just not very observant!

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10:46a, 5/21/10

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4:28p, 5/21/10

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just saw em today

quite a bit

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10:46p, 5/22/10

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We've planted them before in Eastern Starr and Western Hidalgo.

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2:07a, 5/24/10

I've seen them before in/around the Chapman Ranch area btw. Corpus and Kingsville. Pretty cool. Lots of people taking pics.

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10:39a, 5/25/10

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Some Valley farmers tried raising them back in the 70's. Crop was basically a flop and never saw them do it again.

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11:45a, 5/25/10

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9:48a, 5/28/10

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Just got back from Dallas where Mrs Rat and I went on a tour of Jerry World.

I was amazed at that field of sunflowers near Alice.

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4:58p, 5/28/10

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Depending on the type of sunflower black/striped, used for oil, eating, bird seed, and makes for excellent dove/whitewing hunting after harvest.

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