The past few days of sunshine and warmer temperatures have helped warm soil temperatures back above the critical 50 degree level. The featured chart presents a time series of four inch depth soil temperatures for each of the past 26 years with a simple average plotted in black. 50 degrees in an important threshold for crop growth and you can see that the further we get into May, the much less likely it is to breach this level to the downside. Wet soils are the current limiting factor for crop planting progress this spring and rainfall is in the forecast with the best chance on Thursday.

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