Abstract
Degree day accumulations can be used by growers to monitor the development of biological processes and thus can be used in crop and pest management. The adoption and use of degree days by individual growers and agricultural advisors, however, has been limited partly because of computational difficulties involved in the derivation of degree days. A method is described that allows for the calculation of degree days with any threshold temperature(s) using simple arithmetic operations and a table of normalized areas from the trigonometric sine curve method of calculating degree days. The technique described will assist agriculturalists with very limited mathematical skills and/or computational facilities to adopt the use of degree days in their on-farm management.
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