Surviving the farm crisis of the 1980s was so impactful on my dad.
One of the things I remember him talking about many times was how when times got tight, it forced him to get better. He encouraged Brian and me to always be looking at the return on investment of everything we did with our crops AND to recalculate that return each season based on that year’s prices.
Here’s what we learned from the tight 2025 soybean crop and how we’re looking at soybean decisions for 2026…