Agrotrade has completed sowing winter wheat for the 2025 harvest in the fields of Poltava, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy regions, covering a total of 14.6 thousand hectares, the company’s press service reports.
According to the report, the work went according to plan and all areas have sprouts. In the fields where winter crops were sown early, the plants are already highly developed. And where the crops were sown in the optimal periods, they are in the early stages of development.
“To reduce the cost of growing technology, we have changed our approach to choosing a predecessor crop. Previously, we sowed large areas of winter wheat where we grew winter rape. Under these conditions, it requires herbicide and insecticide protection, which costs about $42-47 per hectare. This year, we reduced such crops and planted soybeans and sunflower on the main area. This way we reduced the cost of autumn wheat protection,” said Oleksandr Ovsyanyk, Director of Agrotrade’s Agricultural Department.
The agricultural holding also implemented all measures related to technological control of sowing. The Online Agricultural Operations Management Center monitored the quality parameters of field work: sowing depth, seeding rate and fertilizer application, speed of machinery, and compliance with field contours to achieve high quality sowing and avoid resource overruns.
We remind you that winter wheat ranks first in terms of area among all crops grown by the group.
As reported, on August 13, Agrotrade started the sowing campaign of winter crops for the 2025 harvest, allocating 27.9 thou hectares for the crops. The area under winter rapeseed increased by 1.3 thou hectares compared to last year to 12.5 thou hectares.
The Agrotrade Group is a vertically integrated holding company with a full agro-industrial cycle (production, processing, storage and trade of agricultural products). It cultivates over 70 thousand hectares of land in Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv regions. Its main crops are sunflower, corn, winter wheat, soybeans and rapeseed. It has its own network of elevators with a simultaneous storage capacity of 570 thousand tons.
The group also produces hybrid seeds of corn and sunflower, barley, and winter wheat. In 2014, a seed plant with a capacity of 20 thousand tons of seeds per year was built on the basis of Kolos seed farm (Kharkiv region). In 2018, Agrotrade launched its own brand Agroseeds on the market.
Vsevolod Kozhemiako is the founder and CEO of Agrotrade.
