As of September 10, farmers in all regions of Ukraine sowed 639.9 thou hectares of winter crops, compared to 484.1 thou hectares a week earlier, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported.
According to the report, winter wheat was sown on 101.1 thousand hectares (27.7 thousand hectares a week earlier), barley – on 3.7 thousand hectares (2.2 thousand hectares), rye – on 0.4 thousand hectares (8 thousand hectares), and rapeseed – on 534.7 thousand hectares (446.2 thousand hectares).
According to the Ministry, winter crops are being sown in Vinnytsia, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Winter rape is being sown in 18 regions of Ukraine. Farmers in Volyn, Rivne, and Ternopil regions have finished sowing the crop.
As of the same date a year earlier, Ukraine sowed 1155 thou hectares of winter crops, including 905.9 thou hectares of rapeseed, 228.6 thou hectares of wheat, 10.8 thou hectares of barley, and 9.5 thou hectares of rye.
As of August 22, farmers in all regions of Ukraine have already harvested 31.955 million tons of new crops from 6.759 million hectares, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported on Friday.
According to the report, more than 28.595 mln tons of grains and 3.36 mln tons of oilseeds have been harvested.
APK-Inform analysts pointed out that only about 46 thou hectares were threshed during the week. The temporary slowdown of the harvesting campaign dynamics can be explained by the fact that the harvesting of two key grain crops (wheat and barley) is almost completed, while the corn threshing has not yet started, the experts noted.
It was specified that 21.74 million tons of wheat were harvested from 4.86 million hectares at a yield of 44.7 c/ha, 5.5 million tons of barley from 1.4 million hectares at a yield of 39.2 c/ha, and 458.5 thousand tons of peas. tons from 207.6 thousand hectares at a yield of 22.1 c/ha, buckwheat – 4.3 thousand tons from 6.2 thousand hectares at a yield of 14.4 c/ha, millet – 11.91 thousand tons from 20.4 hectares at a yield of 17.9 c/ha. Other grains and legumes were harvested in the amount of 882.8 thou tons from 277.3 thou hectares at a yield of 32.4 c/ha.
Ukraine continues to harvest oilseeds. In particular, 3.4 mln tons of rapeseed have been harvested from 1.23 mln hectares with a yield of 27.4 c/ha and 7.2 thou tons of soybeans from 6.6 thou hectares with a yield of 10.9 c/ha. Sunflower was harvested in the amount of 51.7 thou tons from 0.2 thou hectares with a yield of 11.1 c/ha.
Agrarians in a number of regions started digging sugar beets. They harvested 7.2 thou tons of sugar beet from 0.2 thou hectares with a yield of 360 c/ha.
Agrarians in all regions of Ukraine have already harvested 31.821 million tons of new crops from 7.946 million hectares, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported on Friday.
According to the report, more than 28.5 million tons of grains and 3.4 million tons of oilseeds have already been harvested.
It is specified that 21.7 million tons of wheat have been harvested from 4.846 million hectares at a yield of 44.7 c/ha, barley – 5.5 million tons from 1397.4 thousand hectares at a yield of 39.2 c/ha, peas – 458.5 thousand tons from 207.6 thousand hectares at a yield of 22.1 c/ha, buckwheat – 2.4 thousand tons from 1.4 thousand hectares. tons from 1.6 thousand hectares at a yield of 14.4 c/ha. tons from 207.6 thousand hectares at a yield of 22.1 c/ha, buckwheat – 2.4 thousand tons from 1.6 thousand hectares at a yield of 14.4 c/ha, millet – 9.5 thousand tons from 5.32 c/ha at a yield of 17.9 c/ha.
Ukraine continues to harvest oilseeds. In particular, more than 3.4 mln tons of rapeseed have been harvested from 1227.6 thou hectares with a yield of 27.2 c/ha and 1 mln tons of soybeans from 0.7 thou hectares with a yield of 27.4 c/ha. In Mykolaiv region, the harvesting of sunflower has started, with 3.8 thou tons harvested from 4.2 thou hectares at a yield of 9 c/ha.
In terms of grain harvesting, agrarians in Odesa region are leading the way with 1075.7 thou hectares harvested. Khmelnytsky region is the leader in terms of yield, with 65.5 c/ha. Dnipropetrovs’k region started harvesting soybeans on 0.65 thou hectares with a yield of 15.2 c/ha. Farmers in Mykolaiv region have started harvesting sunflower.
Agrotrade has started sowing winter crops for the 2025 harvest on 27.9 thousand hectares, the company’s press service reports on its Facebook page.
According to the report, the sowing campaign started with winter rapeseed, for which almost 12.5 thou hectares have been allocated in Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Poltava regions, which is 1.3 thou hectares more than last season.
“The change in the area under winter rapeseed is primarily due to crop rotation requirements. This year, we started the sowing campaign simultaneously in Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions. The work has already gained momentum and will last a total of two weeks. They were preceded by high-quality preparation, such as peeling, plowing, leveling and fertilizing,” said Oleksandr Ovsyanyk, Director of Agrotrade’s Agricultural Department.
Currently, more than 24% of the planned area has been sown with the crop, and 15 units of machinery are involved.
“We will soon start sowing winter wheat, for which Agrotrade has allocated 15.4 thousand hectares,” the agricultural holding summarized.
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.
In its August report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) slightly lowered its forecast for the corn crop in Ukraine. The decrease compared to July is 1.8%, namely to 27.2 million tons (-0.5 million tons), exports – 24 million tons (-0.5 million tons), ending stocks increased to 0.73 million tons (+0.5 million tons).
World corn production is reduced to 1.219 billion tons (-0.005 billion tons), exports – to 191.47 million tons (-0.34 million tons), carry-over stocks – 310.17 million tons (-1.47 million tons).
Analysts have lowered their estimates of global corn production due to extreme heat and drought in southeastern Europe and the Southern and North Caucasus regions of Russia in July, which affected crop yields. Corn production in Ukraine was reduced, as the expansion of corn production areas was offset by lower yield expectations.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in its August report raised its wheat harvest forecast for Ukraine in the 2024/2025 marketing year (MY, July 2024/June 2025) by 10.8% to 21.6 million tons, and exports by 7.7% to 14 million tons
Analysts also revised upward the domestic consumption of wheat in Ukraine by 10.5% to 7.4 million tons. Ukraine will enter the season with starting residues of 770,000 tons, while a month earlier they amounted to 1.08 million tons. USDA expects that by the end of 2024/2025 MY the country will have 1.05 mln tons of wheat, which is 9.4% higher than the July forecast.
At the same time, USDA forecasts world wheat production for the 2024/2025 season at 798.28 (+ 2.18 million tons from last forecast) and world exports at 214.86 million tons (+ 1.98 million tons). The experts lowered the forecast of wheat ending stocks in the world to 256.62 million tons (- 1.97 million tons).
