If my soil is nearing 50% moisture, but my finger feels that the soil is still pretty wet, what setting do I change?

[Kubisuro]

I imagine the AWC (Available Water Content) setting would be the value to change. However I’m not knowledgeable enough to make any suggestions as how to modify that value besides checking that it matches NRCS’s soil data first.

See this forum post on the NRCS web soil survey and discussions:

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