Peanut-Cotton InfoNet, Virginia Tech Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center, provides crop management information, updated daily during the growing season, to provide county agents and growers with the following information at the beginning of each work day.

• Maximum, minimum, and average air temperatures
• Average soil temperature at a 4 inch depth
• Daily and accumulated (from May 1) peanut heat units
• Daily and accumulated (from May 1) cotton degree-days
• Daily and total seasonal (from May 1) rainfall
• Last effective spray date for peanut leaf spot
• Sclerotinia blight risk
• Frost advisory (from September 25th to completion of harvest)

• 2005 Temperature Data from Select Virginia Counties (Maximum, Minimum and Degree Day Information), also link to Ranges of Critical Temperatures for tree fruit buds. Archived data from previous years and other weather-related links.
• Understanding Degree Days and Using Them in Pest Management Decision Making, Zilahli-Balogh, G. and Pfeiffer, D. G.
• The Virginia Fruit AdVisor: PDAs as Extension Delivery Tools

• Unisys Weather
• WeatherUnderground
• My Cast

• Tobacco Blue Mold Forecast
• Cucurbit Downy Mildew Forecast

USDA-FAS: The FAS Crop Explorer�Up-to-date global crop information from soil, climatic and satellite data. Primary users include farmers, agribusiness, researchers, commodity traders, government agencies and geographic information systems (GIS) workers. See a news release on FAS Crop Explorer from June 2005 (pdf).

Last updated 9-30-11

Virginia Cooperative Extension - Virginia Agriculture & Experiment Station