Spring Planting Timing: When to Plant Oats, Peas, and Cool-Season Crops
Colten Catterton walks through spring planting windows for cool-season and warm-season cover crops. You'll learn ideal soil temperatures, how to check your location's conditions, and when to shift from cool-season to warm-season species if planting gets delayed.
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0:04 Cool, hey buddy, how's it going?
0:08 Hey, got a quick question for you. A lot of people are wondering if it's too cold.
0:13 And wet to plant like oats and peas anymore, are you concerned about that at all? That answer is gonna vary greatly.
0:20 Based on where you locate it, but here in Nebraska, historical ideal planting date is from mid-March to 1st April. It's been
0:28 Cool and wet like it has been ideal plant, they will be pushed back in the first week April, possibly in the mid.
0:35 April after that point you must weigh the option of moving forward with your spring planting we're switching over and.
0:41 Looking at cool season in Tucson next. Cool season species normally I planted when the soil temperature is 40 degrees.
0:49 And rising and dry enough to drill across the field for many of our customers that would already happen to.
1:04 Link below you can put in your zip code. It will tell you that it's made it current sold temperature along with the five-day.
1:10 Average so just looking at that map and the Dakotas in the east, it looks like you're still too wet and too cool to
1:17 Maybe get some of those cool season crops in here in Nebraska and the East. The ideal looks to be right now so if.
1:25 You know, this cool season crops on hand suggest getting a man as soon as possible. Kansas south and east, you're getting to the point where we need to start looking at warm season options. We should be planted here, not too fond of near future.
1:41 So if people are still curious about any of this or want to get a mix, what's the best way to go about doing that? Good evening, killer seed.com. You can get on the smart makers calculator or you can call over the office at 802-469-6784.