After weeks of cool, wet weather, farmers in the New Glarus area are beginning to move back into the fields as corn planting picks up across Wisconsin.

The work is still behind schedule, but the recent stretch of drier weather has given growers a needed opening during one of the most important windows of the farm year.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Wisconsin farmers had planted 10 percent of the state’s intended corn acres as of the latest weekly report. That is behind both the five-year average of 15 percent and last year’s pace of 14 percent at this point in the season.