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Expected Number of Days to Plan Summer Crops In Kansas

Terry Griffin and, Ignacio Ciampitti (April, 2015)

Summary

Knowing how many suitable working days might be available to conduct fieldwork for a given crop operation impacts crop choice and machinery investment decisions. Using the “most active” dates to plant and harvest Kansas crops the number of days suitable for planting corn, grain sorghum, and soybean each year from 1981 to 2013 were graphed for each Kansas crop reporting district.