Post May Freeze Soil
Temperatures
May
3, 2013
Currently
producers seem to have one eye on the weather forecast, one eye on the soil
thermometer, and one hand on the tractor door, ready to head to the field to
plant cotton. Soil and weather forecasts
do indicate a warming tread as we exit the deep freeze one more time. For the next week I plan to post some
additional soil temps from around Hale and Swisher Counties in locations that I
am working near in an effort to help anyway we can. All of my readings are taken with a 6 inch
soil temperature gage and may not be ‘weather station precise’ but is site
specific and mobile.
Today,
the first day to start that warming trend, I took one soil temperature reading.
- -
52°F. At the Halfway Station. Potential cotton ground / plowed / moderate
moisture / under pivot.
Dr. Ken E. Legé
with Americot had a chart that appeared in PCG’s e-news. I like the thoughts he shared and will
provide a link here. http://www.plainscotton.org/mj/ACNGPlantChart.pdf
Please call if I
can be of assistance.
Blayne
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