Motorists received another reminder about the increased agricultural traffic on area roads after a 27-year-old woman rear-ended a tractor Sunday evening.

The accident occurred just before 6 p.m. on State Highway 57 near School Road in the Town of Brussels. According to the accident report, a 48-year-old man was driving the tractor with a trailer attached for a Door County farm on the shoulder with its amber warning lights on when he was struck by the woman in the right northbound lane.

The tractor was traveling between 25 and 28 mph, while the woman said she was traveling 73 mph. While her passenger was unharmed, she suffered a minor injury that did not require hospitalization. Her car was towed due to disabling damage, and she was cited for inattentive driving.

One lane of traffic was closed for about 90 minutes while cleanup took place.

The accident came after Wisconsin farmers were able to make significant progress with fieldwork because of improved weather conditions. Farmers in northeast Wisconsin had 5.7 suitable days for fieldwork last week, just below the statewide average of 6.2 days. The drier weather allowed farmers to close the gap with the five-year average for planting corn, oats and soybeans, along with completing spring tillage.