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Aberdeen MS | as my sole means of income, I had "so called grid size" of approximately 10 acres based on soil types. Using the soil type map devised a walk pattern to cross over the grid. It would be a \, /, V, Z, W.
A minimum of 11 cores were pulled, but I often wondered how representative I got to the lab as about 1/3rd of the total soil went into the bag.
What I did was sampled an inch deeper to compensate for the "foot" of the probe (7" deep vs 6") and with a stainless kitchen knife sliced off the exposed core in the tube. That is what went into the bucket and the rest got discarded back into the field.
Now there was no question about what part of the cores went to the lab, full depth of every core went to the lab for a bit more "accurate" representative sample. | |
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Starting to do my own soil sampling
