This past spring featured a combination of very warm weather, a rapid cool-down, followed by heavy rains. Bayer Top Producer Account Manager Troy Sayler says those early-season conditions influenced the soybean crop at harvest time. “The beans were disappointing across North Dakota and northern Minnesota. What looked like 50 bushel beans was not.” Rather than planting soybeans in 2026, Sayler is seeing farmers consider alternatives, like canola, dry edible beans and sunflowers. It is an entirely different story for corn. “Corn just seemed to flat-out handle the weather better; for a lot of farms, corn yields are stacking up to this being one of their best years ever.”
