Local growers look back on 2025 crop year

Oswald: ‘Definitely another challenging year for us’
 

A farmer combines the last strip of corn in a field north of Aurora as the sun sets last Tuesday. The corn harvest appears to be nearly complete in Hamilton County.
A farmer combines the last strip of corn in a field north of Aurora as the sun sets last Tuesday. The corn harvest appears to be nearly complete in Hamilton County.

With the 2025 harvest season nearly wrapped up here, Hamilton County farmers are looking back on the season with mixed emotions. While both the quality and yields of this year’s soybean crop appear to be above average, most corn fields saw only average yields at best, impacted by fungal diseases and a period of untimely cold and cloudy weather late in the growing season.  Having finished his …