The 2025 crop season has brought many lessons. We topped our wheat production to new highs. But costs of inputs in relationship to sales kept profits from being realized. We had good corn and bean seed emergence to start the season off as well. As we have learned through the years to let the crop guide our in-season decisions through plant tissue samples the fact remains that being a student of the crop is who I am at my core, and I find plants fascinating. A soybean can fool you from the road. Three-bean pods can only be filled with one bean because of moisture shortages during grain fill like this year.