It has been a rocky road for many growers. A question on the minds of many is whether 2027 will bring relief.

Josh Linville, VP of Fertilizer for StoneX, said the short-term outlook is continued high input costs, but he hopes for improvement farther into the new year.

“I’m saying that on the contingency that we find peace in the Middle East and normalcy back to vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz,” Linville said. “The sooner we get that body of water reopened, the better the reset is going to be by next summer. I still think even if we had a perfect situation today, there are still some problems in the spring. I think by next summer, we could do a lot of healing.”

The short term may also improve in activity in Washington, D.C. Tyson Redpath of The Russell Group said two main areas of optimism include potential deescalation of tariffs and growing sentiment that a more modernized farm bill might finally be approved.

He added with a Republican President and Democratically-controlled Congress, there may finally be the balance in place to reduce trade tariffs and open more agricultural exports.

Farm chapter 12 bankruptcy filings rose 19 percent this year compared to 2025, according to University of Arkansas analysis.

You may not know Neil Justesen or Southern Fabrication Works, but the odds are good you have benefitted from his technology.

Neil and his team work in Burley, Idaho, work with food companies throughout the world, to provide processing machinery that is literally cutting-edge. His clients primarily are involved with french fry production, but he also works with many additional companies and technologies.

“I found a lot of excitement and joy, just solving problems that nobody has been able to solve before,” Justesen said. “Just the value to agriculture and food production is really exciting!”

Through his second company, Mosaix, Justesen designed the 22,000 square foot second building at our Redox Bio-Nutrients headquarters. This state-of-the-art facility includes many hi-tech features, including a laboratory for product research.

Weather can make or break a crop, and this winter is one to watch, with a likely super El Niño taking shape.

“We're very confident that this event will be extremely strong,” said Nat Johnson with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who is among the team tracking its progress. “It's already very strong. So we're very confident in how the El Niño will evolve in the tropical Pacific. And then now the question is how confident should we be in the expected impacts of El Niño over places like the US and throughout the world? And that's a little bit trickier because there are other factors that always influence our weather and climate places like North America.”

Another closely following this climate pattern is Rob Doornbos, a grower and head of Weather Tools in Chico, California.

“It's totally unfounded to sit here and say, we got a Super El Niño batten down the hatches, we're all going to flood away,” he said. “We could have a very damaging year that's entirely possible and our data collection will complete here by the end of October and we will run our model and we will see what it says.”

Doornbos studied the last four super El Niños in California. The first two were exceptionally wet with a lot of flooding. The last two were average to slightly dry precipitation.

Stress is unwelcome in all crops, and turfgrass is no exception. At Paris Mountain Country Club in South Carolina, Superintendent Sam Adams has successfully battled weather extremes and drought through Redox TurfRx products.

“As soon as we had a few warm days this spring, before I applied any kind of fertilizers, they just grained up and looked beautiful and they've never done that before,” Adams said. “So that has to be because of the Redox that is in the soil. And once the weather turned and the grass had that nutrition there, it was able to kind of green up and come out of winter without me having to do anything to it.”

Adams utilizes five TurfRx products, OxyCal, Platinum, NatureCur, Calcium and Supreme. With his entire state in severe drought or abnormally dry conditions, he is hoping for a rainy late fall and winter and appreciates the vital role Redox is playing on his course quality.

Find out more about Sam’s course at ParisMountainCC.net.

Latin America’s is one of the world’s largest net food exporters. It’s a fascinating market to monitor. More than 1 billion acres of crops are grown here, so major developments are felt elsewhere in the globe. The region’s expected growth rate is dependent on modernization and sustainability, including new agricultural tools like biostimulants.

Latin America is the world's fastest growing and largest biostimulant market in the world. These materials, used probably, are one key to future prosperity.

Ignacio Moyano Cordoba, Vice President of Business Development with DunhamTrimmer, said helping farmers succeed has positive impacts well beyond agriculture.

"If farmers can produce more reliably while using water and nutrients carefully, that benefits supply chains and communities far beyond the farm," he said. "Latin America has an important role in that story. For me, the goal is to help farmers make better decisions and keep producing under increasingly difficult conditions for these moments."

Find out more at DunhamTrimmer.com.

Located in Rochester Mills, Pennsylvania, Pine Valley Farms is a family owned and operated produce farm that started in 1932. Kegan Wright grows a variety of crops, known far and wide for their superior taste and quality.

He said Redox technology is important to his success.

"I'm running Redox Rx Platinum™ and RootRx®," he said. "And I'll tell you, since I've started running that for my pop-up fertilizer, the whole way through the crop cycle, my plants are healthier. They can handle stress a lot better. I am really liking it and I don't know that I'll ever go away from it. I do have some really good feedback on diKaP™ with our Roma tomatoes, as well."

Wright said 16 hour days are typical during much of the year, but farming is a major part of his life and the long workdays are worth it.

Nitrogen is the most widely-used fertilizer in the world, and it makes sense to get the most out of it.

RDX Technology from Redox includes the patented and potent biostimulant RDX-N®, along with newly-released RDX-Flex™. These two products work well throughout the season to get more nitrogen where it counts. RDX technology can lower liquid nitrogen applications by 50% without loss of yield or quality.

"You're getting more nitrogen energy utilization moving through that plant," said Redox West VP Jared Sannar. "I don't want to leave out this reduced stress. You measure that through redox potential. There's other ways to measure that where you're reducing after treatment, whether soil applied, research shows and our field experiences, whether it's soil applied or foliar, you are reducing the stress after an application. And that has carry. We've seen this out to 30, 40 days in some crops."

Find out more from Sannar and Redox Agronomist A.J. Borges in our latest technical podcast.

Learn more about RDX-Flex here: https://www.redoxgrows.com/news/redox-expands-patented-nitrogen-technology-with-rdx-flex/

Nitrogen makes up the majority of all fertilizer used. Whether good markets or bad, it makes sense to use it wisely. Southern Idaho grower Shey Taylor is using new technology to cut his synthetic nitrogen use in half, yet maintain or enhance yield and quality this season.

Driving this positive change is RDX-N®, a patented and potent biostimulant that puts more nitrogen to work where it counts- inside the plant.

"We could see just from 140 acres last year of applying RDX-N that the bottom line was going to be way higher,"Taylor said. "Applying RDX-N saved us $60 an acre, which is especially helpful in the spring, when we have many expenses out."

Taylor said cost saving is crucial to his bottom line, especially consider so many of his inputs have increased in price.

Find out more about RDX-N at https: RedoxGrows.com/product/rdx-n/.