Who does your soil tests?

DanniAgro

Member
Last year I tried Hill Court Farm, Gloucestershire - they seem okay, apart from having higher P and K than expected, but hopefully it's correct. Will take soil from the same field again this autumn, amongst different ones, and see if last years indices are repeated.
 

Steevo

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Location
Gloucestershire
Last year I tried Hill Court Farm, Gloucestershire - they seem okay, apart from having higher P and K than expected, but hopefully it's correct. Will take soil from the same field again this autumn, amongst different ones, and see if last years indices are repeated.

We use them every year for testing. Usually take samples and drive them over there same day. Never been aware of any issue with them.
 

DanniAgro

Member
We use them every year for testing. Usually take samples and drive them over there same day. Never been aware of any issue with them.
Good to hear that you're satisfied with them. My remark was to show my surprise at P and K indices of 3 and 4 in all tested fields when I only put on a maintenance dressing for the last ten years, and the tests before then having results of index 1 and 2.
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
Are all the samples being taken at the same time of year???

We always have sample done for next years beet land in the end of october early november. Twice for various reasons I've sampled after harvest and had completely different results.
 

haggard143

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Norfolk
I shall need to sample some fields for N,P and K. how big a bag of soil ? sealed ? been told frontier at diss any others south norfolk ? sorry if hijack never done before
 

Bogweevil

Member
If this is the case what's the point?

I would look at it the other way - given the variability in soils in a field, nutrient fluxes over the year, the difficulty of getting representative samples on the ground and the potential for 'drift' in the lab it is amazing that there is any consistency at all.

Where the variation is such that there is a major difference in actual fertiliser regime, seldom is in my experience, split samples and send to different labs.

The best you can hope for is an acceptable degree of error.
 

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