Producers Blog
Not Time Yet…
Bodie Meyer (DSM, Region 3 – Western Nebraska)
It is amazing how different things can be from year to year! If you were to compare April 9th, 2012 to April 9th, 2013, there’s a huge difference. It was nearly impossible to try to keep guys from planting corn last year at this time. The temperature on April 9th of last year was 64 degrees and the soil temperature was warm enough to provoke some growers to start planting on or before the dates allowed by crop insurance companies. Now look at it! We have snow and ice and the soil temperature is not warm enough to begin planting.
It’s not warm enough to plant yet; we still have ice on the trees!
Soil temperature in early April in northeast Nebraska.
