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WC Mn/Dakotas | I dont think i would call it a bargin when it comes to soil sampling. On a quarter section at 2.5 acre grid, you will have about 62 points to sample. How much time are the samplers spending in the field? Do you have some intern that is chewing sunflower seeds getting paid by the acre, barely stopping the vehicle and pulling 1 core that probably has more or less depth of core? That is 60 some cores and probably takes an hour or so.
Or do you have you have someone with experience and knowledge that takes samples by hand, to an exact depth, without contaminating the sample with sweat or other salts, and takes 12-15 cores per point? That is around 800 cores and maybe takes about 8 hours.
Its good you have ph, but what about o.m., cec, base saturation, excess lime/carbonates. They all are vital to really telling you what a rec should be.
So do you want a bargin sample job and rec that costs $10/acre less telling you how to spend $100/acre on inputs that might yield 10-50 bu/acre less? Or a multiple year spread when you dont know what the weather (yield) will be and therefore dont know which crop used what, how much, or why? | |
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Grid soil sampling, what do you pay per acre?
