New extension article: Diving Deep into Plant Available Water

Whether you are irrigating or watering with precipitation, understanding how soil holds on to water is an invaluable skill for evaluating your soil moisture, crop health, and drought or flood resilience. Dr. Nocco teamed up with experts in the UW–Madison Ag Water Program to release a new extension article on measuring plant available water. Check it out here!

The stages of soil moisture. Thresholds (dashed lines) determine the different categories of soil moisture. Plant available water (middle) is water that plants roots can take up. Credit: Dr. Izze McNamee.