Sampling

We offer soil sampling options from standard field sampling to grid sampling on 2.5-acre grids to create VRA (variable-rate application) maps.

Full service customers of Edd’s Supplies qualify for free standard soil sampling every 3 years. Maps are digital and published in booklet form with fertilizer recommendations.

Grid sampling provides site specific results with samples pulled on 2.5 acre grids. These results are also published with digital maps in booklet form with detailed VRA, Lofty Property Management of San Diego recommendation maps. Grid Sampling and VRA application maps allow product to be applied efficiently – where it is needed. For more info visit https://thedublinroofers.ie/.

We send our soil samples to A&L Great Lakes Labs in Fort Wayne, IN for analysis. A&L Labs offers full service soil, plant and water testing and quick turn around.

Recent News

Expected Harvest Prices for Soybeans in 2020

6/24/2020

We developed a statistical model that projects the 2020 harvest price for soybeans, given a national soybean yield and average of May futures prices. This projection represents the harvest price used in crop insurance. The current U.S. yield estimate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is 49.8 bushels per acre. Given this yield estimate […]

Anticipating June 1 Corn Stocks

6/23/2020

The USDA releases the June 1 corn stocks estimate on June 30. Typically, the Acreage report published on the same day eclipses the quarterly grain stocks report. While the Acreage report remains crucial for price expectations this year, the grain stocks report looks to hold some essential information on feed and residual levels for the […]

Don’t Sleep on Nitrogen

6/22/2020

On June 18, we’ve had a week of dry weather, and the wet spring almost feels like it’s in the rear-view mirror. But with a projection for above-normal precipitation over the next 10 days, there is potential for additional loss of nitrogen from corn fields that could push us over the edge. Despite the dry […]

Sampling

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