You might try a feed store for a better price. I paid about 22.50 yesterday for 40# of black oil sunflower seeds at a Del's in Tumwater. Del's has quite a few locations.

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Tracey Cummings
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:26 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] seed prices going thru the roof


I couldn't understand why pricing of black oil sunflower seeds had doubled ($16.99 to now 32.99 for a 40# bag) so I had to check it out. According to one website www.fehls.com

"There are two factors that I have seen to increase the demand for sunflower seed. First, Lays potato chips no longer uses vegetable seed oil to bake their chips, they only uses sunflower seed oil. Second, major cities throughout the U.S. are only allowing food to be fried in sunflower seed oil.
As far as the decreased production, at this point, farmers are able to plant different crops that produce more money per acre. For instance, corn production has been increased due to the auto industries demand for ethanol based fuel."

For those who were wondering the same thing . . .
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Tracey Cummings
Carnation WA - Lake Marcel
teecummings at gmail.com


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