Good yields in 2025 were overshadowed by weak commodity prices. “It has been a crazy year and part of my concern is we had good yields this year, but we just didn’t have the price,” said Betsy Jensen, farm business management instructor, Northland Community and Technical College. “If you were unfortunate enough to get stuck delivering at harvest, you really had an unfortunate situation with soybeans.” Speaking at the Small Grain Update meeting at the University of Minnesota in Crookston, Jensen encouraged growers to look beyond nearby cash bids and consider longer-term opportunities when there is a carry in the market. “We look at the prices today at the elevator, but we forget about what we can get for our deliveries in December or even next winter. If they have a price in mind, it might be out there, but it might be for March of ’27.”
