As we get close to saying goodbye to 2025, it is a perfect time to reflect on a year that brought challenges to both producers and the agri-business community. As is often the case, weather and trade seemed to make headlines regularly in Farm News.

This issue of Farm News includes a 2025 Year in Review section. Regular readers of this newspaper will recognize that our writing team covered these stories thoroughly as they developed. Now, however, it is possible — with the perspective time affords — to see how each fits into the mosaic of a news-filled year.

The year’s key developments are addressed in the special retrospective pages.

The events of most interest and significance to individual readers will vary. Our mission as a newspaper specializing in the agricultural world is to bring news and information about an eclectic mix of topics to those who make Farm News part of their lives.

As 2026 unfolds, our commitment to being the region’s most-trusted source of such news will remain the top priority for our reporting team.

To help our readers get started on the new year, this edition of Farm News also includes our 2025 Year End Decision & 2026 Planning Guide

It contains information on tools, techniques and innovations that will be useful to farmers throughout 2026. In its pages are articles on topics ranging from tractors to a new process for detecting bird flu.

We hope you find these two sections to be interesting and informative.

We wish all of our readers a very happy new year in 2026.