New tools are available for producers to help make management decisions with weather data. USDA Midwest Climate Hub Director Dennis Todey joined the University of Minnesota Extension CropCast to highlight how farmers can utilize soil temperature climatology. “You can now see the dates when we usually hit those 50-degree temperatures and freezing in the spring and fall.” The data is available on a county-by-county basis in the Midwest. The data shows that freeze dates have been changing. “We are getting, especially in Minnesota, this longer growing season.”
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