sunflower

During the second week of January, wholesale prices for sunflower in Ukraine decreased by about $10/t. Ukrainian sunflower is still more expensive than Moldovan sunflower, but the price difference is narrowing, Logos Press reported.

Between August and November 2025, Moldova exported almost 272,000 tons of sunflower – 29% more than last year’s (also record) figure for the same period, Logos Press reported.

The slow pace of the 2025 maize harvest campaign due to high soil moisture in the fields and grain in the cob increases the risk of deterioration in the quality of these products, especially when they are stored. This is the case in many countries in the Northern Black Sea region, but especially in Ukraine and Moldova.

After the summer drought and prolonged October precipitation, the forecast of sunflower harvest-2025 in Ukraine professional oilseed market participants reduced to 11.4 million tons – this is the lowest estimate of production of this crop since 2016, – reports Logos Press.

Sunflower yield losses due to fall precipitation and the delayed harvesting period by at least 10 days will amount to at least 10-15%, Logos Press reports.

The sunflower harvest campaign is gaining momentum in Moldova. In parallel, production forecasts, market strategies and prices are changing cyclically.

In 2025, the sunflower harvest in Moldova will be higher than last year. Its price, judging by the market dynamics in the last months of the last marketing season, also demonstrates, albeit timid, but still, the potential for growth. Will these two factors be sufficient for Moldova to keep the ambiguous status of “pure and large” exporter of this oilseed raw material in the new marketing season? Or are there possible variants?

At least 800 thousand tons of products from 414 thousand hectares of sunflower crops will be harvested by Moldovan farmers this year, – reports Logos Press.

More than 82,000 tons of rapeseed of the 2025 crop were exported by Moldova during July 1-24, Logos Press reported.

As the harvesting campaign approaches, the forecast of the second group of field crops becomes more and more “uncomfortable topic”. Because some farmers will have nothing to harvest, but gloom is a sin. And other farmers will have something to brag about, but vanity is also a sin.

In Moldova, the rape harvest will be completed next week. By the end of the harvesting campaign, preliminary estimates of the production of this crop have increased, while the domestic and foreign trade context has changed significantly. Is it for the better? It is an open question.

In the range of 8.3-8.4 lei/kg, the average price of last year’s sunflower stabilized in the last decade of July,” Logos Press reported.