Soybeans are becoming an increasingly important crop in Georgia where potential for yields and profitability is high. Because of our sandy soils and periodic droughts, to consistently achieve high yields soybean growers must use irrigation. Sound irrigation scheduling strategies and appropriate irrigation scheduling tools are needed to address the timing and amount of irrigation needed during the growing season. Irrigation scheduling has not been widely adopted by Georgia soybean producers because reliable and easy-to-use scheduling tools are not available. This project incorporates features into the soybean portion of the SmartIrrigation app to provide and continuously improve a tool to do this.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, Extension agents