Sunflower season is here!
It's one of the best times of year for flower lovers, as sunflower fields bloom across the country. AccuWeather's Emmy Victor explains how farmers are feeling relieved after navigating weather challenges.
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00:00 I'm here at Von Bergen's Country Market,
00:02 a popular sunflower field in the Midwest.
00:05 Every spring they plant 14 fields
00:07 of flowers one week at a time,
00:09 so the flowers can bloom from now
00:11 through October.
00:12 Hundreds of people have already
00:13 come by to check them out.
00:15 While the sunflowers are tall and healthy now,
00:18 I'm told it isn't always easy
00:20 to get them to that point.
00:21 Mike Von Bergen,
00:22 who owns this farm,
00:23 says the weather was extremely dry this spring.
00:27 Thanks to some timely rain in July,
00:29 it didn't take too much of a
00:31 toll on the sunflowers.
00:32 Sunflowers don't require a lot of rain.
00:34 They they predominantly grow a lot of
00:36 these sunflowers in North and South Dakota,
00:38 so they're only getting like a 15
00:40 inch annual rainfall up there.
00:42 We're here.
00:43 We're getting 30 plus inches normally,
00:45 so they do very well.
00:46 Dry Von Bergen says he did notice
00:49 his first field bloomed a week
00:51 later than normal this year,
00:52 and he believes smoky skies from
00:54 Canadian wildfires may have played
00:56 a role in the delay,
00:57 but now many fields are blooming
00:59 across the country,
01:00 so his recommendation to anyone
01:02 visiting a sunflower field is to
01:03 be weather aware where comfortable
01:05 shoes in case it's muddy from
01:07 recent rainfall and if it's going
01:09 to be hot drink plenty of water as
01:11 there may not be a lot of places
01:13 to catch some shade reporting
01:14 for Accuweather. I'm Emmy Victor.