Jill Schramm/MDN A combine stops to unload into a truck during the corn harvest in the Burlington area Friday, Nov. 21.

Area farmers are wrapping up a 2025 harvest that grain merchandisers report showed some good yields and quality and recently has been attracting better pricing.

The season brought an occasional untimely rain or temporary grain movement backlog, but farmers weathered those issues and are now watching markets for selling opportunities.

Overall, it was an above average harvest, said Brandon Burbidge, general manager at Border Ag and Energy of Bottineau, which has multiple grain-handling locations in northcentral North Dakota,

“Spring wheat was right at average harvest. Beans were probably slightly above average harvest. Canola is above average harvest, and corn was proba

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