Members of Peninsula Pride Farms hope you will see greener fields in the near future as farmers still struggle to get out into their fields to plant because of the wet spring. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Wisconsin Crop Progress and Condition report, farmers have been unable to have more than four days suitable for fieldwork in a given week for a month. That has caused corn planting to be two weeks behind and soybeans to be over a week behind last year’s pace. The wet conditions have forced to farmers to change plans for some of their fields, even scrapping planting in some cases. Agronomist Nathen Nysse of Peninsula Pride Farms asks farmers to reconsider those plans and to plant at least some kind of cover crop. He says one season of letting weeds take over a field instead of planting could cause even more problems.

Thanks to grants, Nysse adds that Peninsula Pride Farms can help shoulder some of its members' risks with planting in their fields.