The No. 1 article for DTN's Top Ag Stories of 2025 highlights how President Donald Trump turned tariffs from a trade bargaining chip into a lever to reshape the country's economic policies.
No. 2 on DTN's list of the Top 10 Ag Stories of the Year focuses on how, in 2025, both corn and soybeans could record all-time high average yields, and they could have been even higher had late-season dryness and disease not "took the top off" the crop.
The Trump administration and 12 states are seeking an October 2026 trial date against Syngenta and Corteva, alleging they paid distributors to block generic pesticides.
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."