You might see a pause of farm machinery working the fields in Door and Kewaunee counties for the next few days after the area received the first measurable snow of the season on Tuesday.  Rich Olson of Olson Family Farm in southern Door County says some areas recorded three inches of snowfall that will delay some farmer’s harvest until the snow melts.  He says many farmers still had cornstalks in the fields waiting to dry out after a wet October.

Olson notes that, for the most part the fall weather was ideal for harvesting crops with excellent weather conditions.  According to the USDA crop progress report, Wisconsin shows that soybeans are less than 50 percent good or excellent while corn is just over 50 percent.  That compares to about 75 percent and 80 percent, respectively, last year at this time.