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I recommend finding a lab with a good reputation, scheduling a meeting and getting an explanation of why their system is better or more accurate than others. " " Continued from Page 46 precipitate them out and measure the immediate available cation nutrient load based on that procedure. But since our roots don’t rinse the soil with acetate that usually doesn’t give us the available nutrients in soil solution. So, we look at the saturation paste extract to see what is coming out of the water. How the lab handles our samples and manipulates them in their own style to interpolate the results should at least give us a playing field to start with. We have to determine if that playing field is level. Every year we take samples from fields and send the exact same soil samples to different labs to compare results and keep people honest. More often than not, most of the results are within the margin of error for most nutrients. However, we will find those outliers where a certain lab will have a vast discrepancy from another lab on something like sulfate. That large negatively charged molecule (that is akin to parking another car in a tight garage) makes it harder for other nutrients to move around. These discrepancies can make a big difference in how we manipulate a soil to release nutrients. So, what do we do? Every lab that I deal with prides themselves on their commitment to excellence. They have to or they go out of business. The differing results come from techniques, methods and systems that open themselves to being more accurate in specific soils than the competition based on their chemist’s beliefs and experience. To the average farmer it can be a daunting task if we keep changing the playing field. I recommend finding a lab with a good reputation, scheduling a meeting and getting an explanation of why their system is better or more accurate than others. Then choose, choose wisely, and stick with it. Now you have a baseline, and have leveled the field. Get More Into Our Trees Once this is established, now the test is to use this data to manipulate the soil and get more of our applied nutrients into our trees. Do we need to acidify the soil? With what product? How will that affect other nutrients? Are we just applying, or do we have a plan to match Continued on Page 50 48 West Coast Nut <strong>May</strong> <strong>2019</strong>
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