Continental reveals crop structure for 2026 season
Continental Farmers Group has allocated 181,000 hectares for agricultural crops in 2026. The majority of the area will be planted with spring crops, while 73,000 hectares have been allocated to winter crops, the company said in a Facebook post.
In the company’s crop structure for the 2026 harvest, winter crops cover 73,000 hectares, including:
- winter rapeseed — 27,400 ha,
- winter wheat — 35,370 ha,
- winter barley — 10,280 ha.
The company plans to allocate 108,100 hectares to spring crops, increasing the area by 12% compared to last year.
Continental says preparations for the active phase of the spring field campaign are nearly complete, although the start of the campaign has been slightly delayed due to a cold and prolonged winter.
According to agronomists’ monitoring results, winter crops have successfully overwintered, and germination tests show a high plant survival rate. The company currently sees no need for reseeding.
Continental’s Chief Operating Officer Kostyantyn Shytiuk explained that significant snow cover — reaching up to 30 cm in some areas — helped protect crops from frosts of down to –25°C. However, due to the prolonged snow cover, nitrogen fertilization was not carried out in February as in previous years and has been postponed to March.
According to Shytiuk, this could lead to several field operations overlapping in the second half of March, including fertilization, winter crop protection, and preparations for sowing spring crops.
The company also noted that the pace of fieldwork will largely depend on weather conditions in March and early April, which will determine the start of spring vegetation and the ability to fully realize the potential of late-sown winter wheat.
