{"id":6196,"date":"2016-02-26T12:21:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2016-02-26T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T18:25:49","slug":"planting-corn-in-southwest-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/planting-corn-in-southwest-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting corn in Southwest Georgia&#8211;is the soil warm enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rome Ethredge reported in his <a href=\"https:\/\/seminolecropnews.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/26\/plant-corn\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> today that they are starting to think about planting corn in southwest Georgia in areas where the soil is not too wet. \u00a0Generally corn can be planted when the 2 inch soil temperature is consistently at 55 F or higher with no cold spell expected. Soil temperatures of 60 F are even better for getting things going.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia you can get soil temperature maps at the Georgia Weather Network (also known as GAEMN) at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiaweather.net\/index.php?content=tr&amp;variable=XS\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.georgiaweather.net\/index.php?content=tr&amp;variable=XS<\/a>. \u00a0The Florida weather network, FAWN, reports 4 inch soil temperatures at \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fawn.ifas.ufl.edu\/data\/latest_observations.php\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/fawn.ifas.ufl.edu\/data\/latest_observations.php<\/a>. \u00a0North Carolina also has 10 cm (4 inch) soil temperature data in their CRONOS system at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/map\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/map\/<\/a>. \u00a0Alabama has 4 inch soil temperature data at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.awis.com\/mesonet\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.awis.com\/mesonet\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/soil-temp-2-26-2015.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6197\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6197\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/soil-temp-2-26-2015-300x288.png\" alt=\"soil temp 2-26-2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/soil-temp-2-26-2015-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/soil-temp-2-26-2015-144x138.png 144w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/soil-temp-2-26-2015.png 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome Ethredge reported in his blog today that they are starting to think about planting corn in southwest Georgia in areas where the soil is not too wet. \u00a0Generally corn can be planted when the 2 inch soil temperature is consistently at 55 F or higher with no cold spell expected. Soil temperatures of 60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-extension-agent-outreach","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6201,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions\/6201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}