This winter's weather may end up as the warmest in Wisconsin history, but local farmers are keeping their eyes on the spring as Mother Nature may be bringing unseasonably cold and snowy conditions.  The Farmers’ Almanac predicts a “Polar Coaster Spring” with colder temperatures and more thunder and snowstorms.  The long-range forecast calls for many days of freezing temperatures with possible late snow through April in Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region.  Rich Olsen of Olsen Family Farm in southern Door County says more precipitation of rain or even snow would be welcomed since there is no frost on the ground and the fields are very dry.  He says the one concern is if there is a long stretch of bitterly cold weather.

Olsen notes that area farmers are readying their farm equipment for the upcoming planting season, which will not begin before late April or early May.