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Spring takes a setback in Wisconsin

Just when it started to look like spring was arriving, winter returned to the Badger State on Sunday evening. The weekly Crop Progress Report from the National Ag Statistics Service Wisconsin Field Office says temperatures were 5 to 8 degrees above normal last week and top soil moisture increased slightly as the frost is coming out of the ground. A little spring tillage, a little oats planted and a few reports of alfalfa and winter wheat starting to green-up by the end of the week.

However, rain, snow and below-freezing temperatures returned to Wisconsin on Sunday and are expected to stay for most of this week. Rainfall totals exceeding 4 inches from Madison to Manitowoc. Valders had nearly 5.5 inches of rain. Snowfall ranged from 2.5 inches at Green Bay to 9 inches in Eau Claire to nearly 18 inches at Superior. That will keep farmers out of the field for a while.

Maple sap was reportedly slow-to-average in northern Wisconsin this year while the run is being described as “close to average” in the central and southern parts of the state.

 

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