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Table 8 Soil water conditions (abundance of days with water content, θ, over 0.45 in the top 30 cm of soil, n—gives the number of days evaluated for each crop on or around sowing, respectively, maturity for the 30-year period) predicted for sowing and harvest in DH and UE

From: Abundance of adverse environmental conditions during critical stages of crop production in Northern Germany

Crop

Stage

DH

UE

[BBCH]

n

Base

Max

Med

Min

Base

Max

Med

Min

Maize

01

30

0

11

27

29

1

18

25

29

01 ± 5 d

300

0

107

302

310

12

182

273

309

99

30

25

22

22

26

24

24

25

28

99 − 9 d

300

247

221

216

265

252

236

233

269

Wheat

01

29

18

12

17

19

21

13

14

20

01 ± 5 d

290

194

139

117

207

218

161

127

232

99

29

11

4

11

17

12

4

13

8

99 − 9 d

290

57

15

56

164

63

22

70

33