Sunflower season is here!

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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.

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