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Soil and Tissue Testing

Is it Wise to Test?

Once you have applied something to your soil, you cannot take it back… So, when it comes to determining your soil constraints and fertiliser requirements, guesswork or gut feel can waste thousands of dollars and valuable time or even create other problems!
Good, fertile soil drives agricultural production, and a detailed understanding is the first step towards realising its full potential. Soil analysis is fundamental to understanding your soil and provides you with a detailed analysis to form the basis for specific soil fertility and/or amelioration required to correct physical or chemical soil imbalances.
Soil and Tissue Testing

Why Soil Test?

  • Predictive - What's the nutritional status of my soil? What soil chemical properties are limiting my production?
  • Troubleshooting - Are chemical properties in my soil causing underperformance or affecting yield?
  • Monitoring - Have there been any changes to the chemical properties of my soil over time?
  • Assess the true capacity of your soil to support your plant growth expectations
  • Establish current soil structural and nutritional status
  • Diagnose plant nutrient deficiencies/toxicities
  • Make informed decisions for soil management and fertiliser applications to maximise yields and profits
  • Indicate the ameliorants required to correct physical or chemical soil imbalances
  • Monitor soil fertility; ensure we are accessing the maximum from our soils, building soil health and fertility
  • Fine tune nutritional inputs
  • Ensure fertiliser applications have no adverse environmental effects
  • Identify soil variability and apply precision agricultural technology

Establishing a fertile/healthy well-structured soil will improve:

  • Yields
  • Quality of produce — appearance, weight, taste, shelf life
  • Food nutrient value
  • Resistance to pests and diseases
  • Livestock performance
  • Water use efficiency
  • Fertiliser use efficiency
  • Profit

Our years of experience have led us to Eurofins APAL

Research and experience have led us to favour the expertise and excellent service from Eurofins APAL. Hi-Tech Ag have over the past 15 years built a strong trusted relationship with the staff and management of Eurofins APAL which has always given the best testing outcomes for our clients.

Eurofins APAL provide the comprehensive structured testing we require to guide our customers, enabling the best immediate and long-term outcomes for your soil and plant growing success. 

Hi-Tech Ag have a special range of tests coded just for HTA customers which include special pricing an extra suit of additional tests providing our clients with more value from their testing. Talk with a Hi-Tech Ag adviser to determine which HTA testing suite is best suited for your needs.

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To get a complete picture of the characteristics and nutrient status of your soil, a comprehensive range of values are analysed, including:

MIR, Effective Cation Exchange Capacity (ECEC), pH, EC (conductivity), Organic Carbon, Nitrogen, Sulphur, Phosphorus (Colwell/Bray/DGT-P), Phosphate Buffering Index, Exchangeable available Cations – Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium, Aluminium and Hydrogen, and Trace Elements – Boron, Iron, Manganese, Copper, Zinc & Sulphur, Totals, Base Saturation % Ca, Mg, K, Na, H, Al, Ca/Mg ratio, K/Mg ratio

Additional Tests include Chlorides, Cobalt, Molybdenum & Total Aluminium. Selection of these additional tests will depend on your crop, pasture and soil conditions. Call us if you have any queries or would like to book your testing.

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