U.S. Custom Harvesters Inc. President Paul Paplow says the 2025 harvest season yielded solid results but was hindered by persistent rains and crop diseases across several states. Paplow said weather setbacks stretched out their multi-state run, noting, “We could never really get any good running days in from Kansas all the way up through Montana, but we had nice crops and it just took a little longer to get to it. Made it a little more challenging getting scheduling and the timing figured out.” Paplow said disease pressure cut into yields in parts of the Midwest. “The weakest I saw would have been the Hartley, Iowa area. Typically, you’d see a lot of 250 to 260, maybe up to 280 bushel yields in corn, and 200 was topping basically all that off. It was just a lot of disease pressure.” Paplow said areas near Worthington, Minnesota, posted the strongest results this season.
