We had boots on the ground at the World Dairy Expo earlier this month in Madison, Wis. There was a lot of buzz from people there that 2026 is going to be a bounce back year for ag. But Steve Pesik from Zimmerman Manufacturing says let’s wait and see.  

“There is a lot of crop in storage that needs to go somewhere before we can get through this glut. And I think also, what are the yields going to be this year and how is that going to affect things? We hope that things improve and that incomes improve. One of the things that we do is we make equipment to make farmers more efficient on the manure side, we get the nitrogen in the ground so it doesn’t all get evaporated into the air. On the tillage side, strip-till can certainly reduce your input costs. If you’re not going to get more for your product that you’re producing, you have to find a way to reduce the amount that it’s going to cost you to grow your best crop.” 

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