# Turned-down temperatures boost crops’ penchant for production | College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences | Illinois

> A University of Illinois-led study in Global Change Biology found that about 16% of the yield gain from irrigation comes from the cooling effect on crops, separate from the soil water supply. The researchers developed a method to isolate that cooling effect from soil moisture.

- Date: 2020-04-14 · published 2020-04-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/53480-turned-down-temperatures-boost-crops-penchant-for-production-college-of
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Irrigation's value to yields is partly thermal, which matters more as droughts and warming increase. This is a research finding without an immediate effect on supply or prices.

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## Sources

- aces.illinois.edu: https://aces.illinois.edu/news/turned-down-temperatures-boost-crops-penchant-production

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