Thanksgiving celebrates a bountiful food harvest -- but more than a quarter of Wisconsin's corn for grain is still in the fields, much of it buried under a fresh blanket of snow.

According to agriculture officials, 73 percent of the state's corn was in the bin as of Sunday night. That was 9 percent more than the previous week, but still 13 points behind the average for the past five years.

A late winter and a wet spring kept Wisconsin farmers behind the eight ball throughout the growing season. New frost allowed for some manure hauling, and a weekend warm-up melted some significant snow cover but winter returned to most of the state's farm fields on Monday.

Meanwhile, the soybean harvest is just 5 percent short of being complete. That's a 2 percent improvement from the previous week.

Source - http://www.blackseagrain.net/