The 60 acres of sunflowers being grown at Werner Acres in Swatara Township is beneficial in many ways, according to farmers Jeff and Sue Werner, who have been in the sunflower business since 2021.
They also grow other crops besides sunflowers, with sons Tim and Chris and daughter-in-law Katie, across 650 acres in the Jonestown/Lickdale area.
“We’ve started growing sunflowers, I think it was in ’21. We planted one bag right here,” said Werner, referencing a field adjacent to their home. “Just wanted to see how the maturity would be. It was a rough start. We had a hurricane that fall, so I got cooked. It didn’t come up so well, but it proved the point that they would mature in time.”…