{"id":247,"date":"2018-04-09T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/?p=247"},"modified":"2018-04-09T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T15:55:29","slug":"soil-temperatures-and-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/2018\/04\/soil-temperatures-and-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Temperatures and Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Soil Temperatures and Planting Corn, Cotton, and Peanuts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below are desired soil temps needed for corn, peanuts, cotton and soybean. \u00a0These temperatures need to be an average among several days without threat of colder temperatures in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corn<\/strong> at\u00a02&#8243; soil depth should be 55 degrees minimum for 3 consecutive days.<br \/>\n<strong>Peanut <\/strong>at\u00a04&#8243; soil depth should be consistent 68 degrees minimum.<br \/>\n<strong>Cotton<\/strong> at\u00a02&#8243; soil depth should be consistent 65 degrees minimum.<br \/>\n<strong>Soybean <\/strong>at\u00a02&#8243;\u00a0soil depth should be consistent 68 degrees minimum.<\/p>\n<p>These soil temperatures can be found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiaweather.net\/?content=calculator&amp;variable=CC&amp;site=MOULTRIE\">weather station at Spence Field in Moultrie<\/a>.\u00a0 Or you can look up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiaweather.net\/\">other locations closer to you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of late morning hours of April 9, 2018, below are current soil temperatures at Spence Field in Moultrie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-248 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/files\/2018\/04\/Soiltempsmoultrie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/files\/2018\/04\/Soiltempsmoultrie.jpg 531w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/files\/2018\/04\/Soiltempsmoultrie-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/files\/2018\/04\/Soiltempsmoultrie-480x114.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soil Temperatures and Planting Corn, Cotton, and Peanuts Below are desired soil temps needed for corn, peanuts, cotton and soybean. \u00a0These temperatures need to be an average among several days without threat of colder temperatures in the future. Corn at\u00a02&#8243; soil depth should be 55 degrees minimum for 3 consecutive days. Peanut at\u00a04&#8243; soil depth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}