Rome Ethredge reported in the Seminole Crop E News blog that some farmers in southwest Georgia are starting to plant sweet corn, although field corn has not been planted yet. He noted that at their corn meeting this past week Dr. Dewey Lee, UGA grains scientist, said that 2 inch soil temperatures had to be above 55 F for three days and no real cold temperatures in the forecast to make it safe to plant.
You can get soil temperature values from the Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network at www.georgiaweather.net. With the repeated cold outbreaks we have seen coming through the state in the past few weeks and the likelihood that they will continue for the next couple of weeks, even with some projected warming in southern Georgia, Rome says it is probably best to keep the seed in the bags for now. You can read his blog at https://seminolecropnews.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/corn-planting-time-2/
