It's important to test your soil for nutrient deficiency on a regular basis, and this offering comes with 40 tests to monitor ...

One of the oldest and most accurate methods for assessing soil pH at home is pH testing strips. To use these strips farmers ...

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Laboratory analysis should include pH (soil acidity), nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and percentage organic ...

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Soil testing, available through the MU Extension Office, can help maximize yields and produce better quality plants.

These are going to have the greatest effect on your plants, and yet most people never get their soil tested. For years, I didn't test, convinced I could compost my way to good soil. The thing is ...

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– Submit each composite and each depth in its own sample bag. The benchmark composite: Farms could GPS-locate one “average ...