Soybean · Fes, Fes-Meknes, Morocco
When to plant soybeans in Fes
Main outdoor window
17 Feb - 10 Mar
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
3 February
In Fes, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
13 May - 17 Jun
If you plant at the start of the window.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Fes
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Sow direct
17 Feb - 10 Mar
Two weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
13 May - 17 Jun
Soybeans through the year
Against the frost risk in Fes
Why these dates
Sow two weeks after the last frost into warm soil. Varieties are grouped by maturity for a given latitude, and a variety from the wrong group will either flower far too early or fail to finish at all - this matters more with soybeans than with almost any other crop.
No frost tolerance. Killed at 0C at both ends of the season.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Soybeans are timed for direct sowing 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Fes.
The median frost-free season here is 317 days, against 85 to 120 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Also in Fes
Other grains to time
Growing soybeans in Fes
When should I plant soybeans in Fes?
Aim for 17 Feb - 10 Mar in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 7-28 Mar - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will soybeans be ready to harvest in Fes?
Expect to start picking around 13 May - 17 Jun, based on 85 to 120 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will soybeans tolerate?
No frost tolerance. Killed at 0C at both ends of the season.