Wintry weather is keeping farmers in the shop

Wintry weather is keeping farmers in the shop

The early April weather is keeping most Wisconsin farmers out of the fields.  This week’s storm system brought slushy, wet snow from an inch deep in southeastern Wisconsin to more than nine inches in a line from Shawano to Fond du Lac.

Mark Hoffmann farms near Whitewater, west of Milwaukee.  He tells Brownfield the fields went from bare to white quickly. “From noon to about two-o-clock, we had half an inch of rain so it was coming down pretty good.