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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Auggie" data-source="post: 231542" data-attributes="member: 237"><p>Sunlight plays a big role in crop development, but heat is also important.  For every 10C increase in temp, biological activity doubles untill about 60C (sorry, the conversions to farenheit aren't linear).  </p><p>To account for this there's a thing called growing degree days (gdd).  Crops like corn, sunflowrr, and wheat need a certain amount of GDD to become mature.  Soybeans are more photosenitive and mature when the day length shortens (heat is still important here). </p><p>Abiotic stresses will also speed up maturity.  The plant is programed to make seed for future progeny.   It wouldn't surprise me if all the August smoke played a role in maturing soybeans.  The drought certainly exaserbated it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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