Peotone Weather
Growing Degree Days
This table is for the local farmers to aid in corn planting and harvesting.

Guide to corn planting times and for determining the approximate dates when a crop will be ready for harvesting, in the Peotone Area.
 
 
The weather temperatures are logged from https://peotoneweather.com/ in Peotone Illinois, and date back to the beginning of 2007.
 
 
Growing Degree Days
(86,50) system

START SEASON
END SEASON


 

Corn is aproximately 2700 GDD to Crop Maturity

In the absence of extreme conditions such as unseasonal drought or disease, plants grow in a cumulative stepwise manner which is strongly influenced by the ambient temperature. Growing degree days take aspects of local weather into account and allow gardeners to predict (or, in greenhouses, even to control) the plants pace toward maturity. Unless stressed by other environmental factors like moisture, the development rate from emergence to maturity for many plants depends upon the daily air temperature. Because many developmental events of plants and insects depend on the accumulation of specific quantities of heat, it is possible to predict when these events should occur during a growing season regardless of differences in temperatures from year to year. Growing degrees (GDs) is defined as the number of temperature degrees above a certain threshold base temperature, which varies among crop species. The base temperature is that temperature below which plant growth is zero. GDs are calculated each day as maximum temperature plus the minimum temperature divided by 2 (or the mean temperature), minus the base temperature. GDUs are accumulated by adding each days GDs contribution as the season progresses. GDUs can be used to: assess the suitability of a region for production of a particular crop; estimate the growth-stages of crops, weeds or even life stages of insects; predict maturity and cutting dates of forage crops; predict best timing of fertilizer or pesticide application; estimate the heat stress on crops; plan spacing of planting dates to produce separate harvest dates.
The narative above is from Wikapedia