Wisconsin Ag Connection - Spring Tillage Has Begun in Southern Wisconsin

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Spring Tillage Has Begun in Southern Wisconsin
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 04/07/2020

Though they are just scratching the surface, some farmers in far southern Wisconsin have already started breaking ground on the 2020 growing season. In its very first weekly crop report of the year, the state's agriculture department said on Monday that spring tillage was one percent complete statewide as of Sunday. That's comparable to the five-year average.

In addition, farmers have also seeded some of their oat plantings during the past several days.

The agency says above normal temperatures throughout March and the opening days of April melted snow cover and defrosted soils across most of Wisconsin. Farmers were able to take advantage of favorable field conditions in the past few weeks to continue harvest activities not completed last fall.

In many other parts of the state, fields were still too wet to support machinery. However, some reporters noted that Amish farmers had begun plowing and manure spreading with horse-drawn equipment.

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