Soil sampling

farawaygrass

What prices are ye being charged? Would it be bad practice to take samples around now with ground do wet?

Buford T. Justice XIX

farawaygrass wrote: »

What prices are ye being charged? Would it be bad practice to take samples around now with ground do wet?

Before anything is spread would be the best time to sample, it will give a more accurate result.

Tbh, the ground being wet doesn't matter but you won't be able to push the sampler down into the ground to get a sample inside the sampler, it will just push the soil down and to the side without anything going into the sampler.

kevthegaff

I done 20 samples lately at 25 a pop

DukeCaboom

12 euro each but I'm buying the fert off this guy based in Middleton who dors the tests for me.

My local lads that used to test the soil were 25 euros a sample.

I only sent my samples off this week, i usually like to get it done the start of November do.

farawaygrass

I took a few samples in the meantime and opposite to what I thought the soil isn’t saturated and it’s collecting decent samples. I’m being charged 25e too through ag consultant. Seems to be the norm so, even though 12e is brilliant value

Buford T. Justice XIX

farawaygrass wrote: »

I took a few samples in the meantime and opposite to what I thought the soil isn’t saturated and it’s collecting decent samples. I’m being charged 25e too through ag consultant. Seems to be the norm so, even though 12e is brilliant value

I'm paying 20 euro a sample from Teagasc, 4 for the price of 5 deal atm and a guy comes in and takes them all. They also supply colour coded maps for P, K and pH so it's easy to see where slurry and what fertiliser goes where.

I'm going to copy and laminate the maps to keep in the tractor so I know what goes where when I'm spreading.

Dinzee Conlee

I used this crowd before, they seemed to do the job fine...
14euro for pH, P, K

https://www.fba-labs.com/userfiles/file/soil-analysis.pdf

Castlekeeper

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

I used this crowd before, they seemed to do the job fine...
14euro for pH, P, K

https://www.fba-labs.com/userfiles/file/soil-analysis.pdf

Southern scientific are the same but your on your own with the results.
Aso afaik one needs independent sampling for derogation, NMPS etc. So the Teagasc €20 deal is great value.

TCDStudent1

Would it be ok to do soil sampling around now?

Also, any recommendations for who to do it?

whelan2

Could be a bit hard to take samples with ground being wet atm. I took some before Christmas and it kept clogging

einn32

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Would it be ok to do soil sampling around now?

Also, any recommendations for who to do it?

What are you analysing for?

SouthWesterly

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

I used this crowd before, they seemed to do the job fine...
14euro for pH, P, K

https://www.fba-labs.com/userfiles/file/soil-analysis.pdf

How, much soil did you send them.? Prices look very good but portage may make it cheaper just to hand a sample into southern scientific

peterofthebr

Hi anyone use iaslabs.ie? I'm looking to get fields tested silage and grass-beef cattle. Also Where would I get a soil sampling tool-can you rent them?.. I've used Oldcastle labs who supplied tool but looking for local place that also does Analysis of results. . Cavan

Dupont

peterofthebr wrote: »

Hi anyone use iaslabs.ie? I'm looking to get fields tested silage and grass-beef cattle. Also Where would I get a soil sampling tool-can you rent them?.. I've used Oldcastle labs who supplied tool but looking for local place that also does Analysis of results. . Cavan

I’m looking for a place in cavan that does it aswell. I see traynors environmental in Belturbet came up after a google. Anyone used them ?