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Nutrient Management Technical Services |
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Free soil health samples for farmers
A new public-private partnership for improving how soil health can help with management decisions is being conducted in the United States. The project is called “Probing Our Country’s Soil Health”. This group (unrelated to WSDA) is looking for Washington State farmers and ranchers to participate.
Participating landowners will receive:
- Compensation for your time (~ 1 hour) for helping
- A personalized soil health report of your fields. The value of this lab work (at no cost to you) is about a thousand dollars per field.
- A copy of a book called “Probing Our Country's Soil Health”. This will be a hard-copy photo book illustrating soil health across the country and the outcomes to this project.
To learn more about this project, click on Probing Our Country’s Soil Health to see a short video
If interested in participating, you will need to:
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Sign up for a one-hour Zoom Meeting where a facilitator will lead you through a management survey for 2 or 3 fields.
- Grant access to fields for hand-probe soil sampling 2 or 3 sampling sites from each field. Normally this will happen 3-6 months after the survey; you will be notified beforehand.
To enroll as a landowner participant, click on this booking page link to schedule an appointment: https://calendly.com/probing-our-countrys-soil-health/shape-survey
If you have questions, please reach out to:
Dr. Matt Yost
Professor and Agroclimate Specialist
Utah State University
matt.yost@usu.edu
435-797-4210
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to learn more about WSDA Nutrient Management Technical Services, please visit our website www.agr.wa.gov/manure |
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