Citing near-record production costs in a low-price environment, the National Corn Growers Association recently launched a task force to identify solutions to bring costs more in line with today’s commodity prices. Corn growers nationwide are in the third consecutive year of net negative returns, with 2026 projected to be the fourth year of negative returns. “Corn growers have been sounding the alarm for a while that on-farm economics are not working,” said Kenneth Hartman Jr., Illinois farmer and NCGA president. Even with higher yields, farmers are unlikely to be able to offset these high costs. The input task force is led by Matt Frostic, a corn farmer from Michigan and incoming first vice president for NCGA, and is composed of corn farmers, NCGA and state corn organization staff.