SOIL TESTING
Whilst Optima Agriculture does not get directly involved in soil and plant testing, we highly recommend the services of testing laboratories such as APAL to help you in determining the soil and plant health programs that best suit your growing needs.
Current soil testing
is based upon the Albrecht and Reams analysis. This
combination has proven a very efficient means to determine
sufficiency, deficiency and efficiency of fertility
management.
Soil testing
alone however does not provide all the necessary information
for a growing crop.
Plant and animal management requires better crop progress
analysis to add to in-field biological soil benchmarking.
Along with the Albrecht and Reams soil testing, new tissue and sap testing methods will promote the
understanding of ongoing plant biological processes
needed to improve soil and optimise plant production.
