2025 10th Annual Great ON Yield Tour
August 11 - August 22, 2025
Welcome to the 2025 10th Annual Great On Yield Tour
As we look ahead to the 2025 growing season, the U.S. and Canadian key growing regions thus far in the planting season by mid-May there have been a lot of haves and have nots as the U.S. eastern corn belt has been wetter vs. the western corn belt but looking too get moisture as we end the month while the very wet south and Ohio River Valley remains wet with some farmers yet to get started but this area is too small to matter in the big picture. In Ontario some are done planting with the sandy lighter soils but others with the heavy clay soils remain wet and cold, and some will have to replant early planted crops. For now, weather has been a non-story and rain makes grain!
The U.S. Drought Monitor showed that 40.81% of the U.S. Midwest was in a D0-D4 form of abnormal dryness/drought as of 05-13-25 down 26% since mid-March. The Canadian Drought Monitor said that 33% of Ag land and was abnormally dry (D0).
As for 2025 Ontario crop acreage, the corn acreage intentions reported by Statistics Canada are at 2.27 mil acres, which is +5% year-on-year (Y/Y), while the soybean acreage intentions are at 2.92 mil acres (-8% Y/Y). All wheat acreage intentions are at 1.139 mil, which is +14% Y/Y. (Please see chart below)
Will Ontario produce a third straight record corn and soybean crop in 2025 after the 2023 records at 203 and 53 and 2024 at 204 and 53 bpa?
Our deepest gratitude to all the scouts, farmers, hosts and sponsors, who are always essential to making the tour a success. We also look forward to meeting and speaking with you at our popular final events. The Eastern event will be held on August 28th, 2025, at Discovery Farm in Woodstock, Ontario (Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show) with our special guest speaker Shaun Casteel, soybean specialist from Purdue University. The final east event has been moved Petersen Custom Farming in Osgoode, Ontario on August 21st, 2025, with our special guest speaker Peter Sikkema, Professor, Weed Management, Field Crops University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus.
As always, you can follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @Farmsmarketing using hashtag #ONYield25 to view tour photos and farmer/industry expert video interviews.
Applications to be part of the 2025 Ontario Yield Tour Data Collection Tour are now open!
