You will find plenty of action in area fields as many farmers are finishing their harvest and looking ahead to planting in some cases. The United States Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday that 56 percent of the corn silage crop is harvested, which is one day slower than last year but still more than a week faster than years past. That could be due to recent rains in the state that soaked northern and southern Wisconsin but left central portions of the state relatively dry. That has helped farmers like Aaron Augustian, who is in the final days of his corn harvest season in Kewaunee before they get ready to start planting cover crops. For farmers in Door and Kewaunee counties, Mother Nature has cooperated for the most part since June.

Augustian estimates it is the best corn yields he has seen in the past five to seven years. The next step for him and other farmers is to get back out into the fields and to plant cover crops like winter wheat, which the USDA estimates is about 27 percent planted.