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Soil Preparation and Analysis
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Subject: Soil Test Results... Informed Advisor Needed
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Brodie |
Youngsville, LA
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Organic Matter, % 3.6 Phosphorus, ppm P 168 Potassium, ppm K 190 Magnesium, ppm Mg 365 Calcium, ppm Ca 2050 Sodium, ppm Na 25 Cation Exchange Capacity, meq/100g 13.9 pH 7.1 Soluble Salts, mmho/cm 0.1 Sulfur, ppm S 10 Zinc, ppm Zn 8.1 Iron, ppm Fe 58 Manganese, ppm Mn 61 Copper, ppm Cu 2.2 Boron, ppm B 0.6 copy and pasted from test report
2nd try
What would you do with this patch?
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1/5/2010 12:33:04 AM
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Brodie |
Youngsville, LA
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Aparently I sent my samples off too the wrong A & L labs. $30 per sample from this one didnt tell me anything more than the $7 per sample I paid last year too LSU told me. I used the A & L Great Lakes in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (for the last time)
Didnt even give me a classification for soil type this time.
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1/5/2010 12:40:11 AM
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CountyKid (PECPG) |
Picton,ON (j.vincent@xplornet.ca)
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Brodie
did they give you any base saturation numbers?
My first reaction is that you need a bunch of well rotted manure. Did you add anything in the fall after the test was taken?
John
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1/5/2010 6:47:41 AM
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Tomato Man |
Colorado Springs, CO
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Consider communicating with Texas Plant and Soil Lab, in Edinburgh, TX. They employ a Carbon Dioxide extraction process as this manner replicates the way plants naturally take up nutrients in any type of soil medium.
www.tpsl.biz , or (956) 383-0739, contact and discuss the details. Ask for either of two men there, a Noel G. or Wayne T. Say that Ross (with Soil Mender Products) from the recent ACRES conference referred them to you.
Every test report is a moment-in-time assessment, and it is encumbent upon the grower to test periodically, within a set of consistency parameters, and to know the progressive amendment sequences that have been applied to affect all test report numbers over time. You need to know the trend-line (avg./mean)of respective numbers based on what one has done through fertilization, compost amending and harvests.
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1/5/2010 12:07:22 PM
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