Peredovik Sunflower

The Peredovik sunflower is a widely adapted, medium statured sunflower that boasts beautiful large yellow flowers and shiny black seeds with high oil content.  Commonly used as a black oil sunflower seed for bird seed mixes, the Peredovik sunflower is a great variety for attracting doves, quail, pheasants, turkeys and songbirds.  Peredovik sunflower seeds are also attractive to deer and a number of ground foraging animals.  Peredovik sunflowers reach an average height of 4 to 6 feet and are of a medium maturity— approximately 80 to 100 days— making them an excellent choice for gardens and food plots throughout the United States. Bred in the USSR and released commercially in 1960, Peredovik was once one of the most widely grown sunflowers in the world, with nearly 3 million acres being grown in the Soviet Union alone.  At the time of its release in the United States in Canada, the Peredovik sunflower bested commonly grown cultivars by nearly 30% in overall oil content, leading to a mass