Our Crop Consultant Pulling Soil Samples

 

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Setting up the grid for the field in his computer.

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Unloading the ATV

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Probing about 8 inches deep.

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It takes 5 probes around a GPS point to make up one “sample” bag for the lab to test.

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Yes, he has a GPS bubble on his ATV. He finds the points on the grid that way. He samples every 2.5 acres.

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GPS readout around a point.

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Heading to the next point.

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He sampled 680 acres in less than 12 hours.

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