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Soil samples my 1st time

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Graveyard1984

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I know that they make a tool to take soil samples. I don't have the tool. What other ways is there to take soil samples?
Please give me tips tricks on how to do this
Thanks
 
Take a shovel and take one shovel full out then take a slice out of the side wall of the hole. Make it about inch thick and the full depth of the shovel. Dump that slice into a five gallon bucket. Do this in multiple spots in the field. Your wanting a six-eight inch section of your field's dirt. Dump your bucket full out and let it dry a day or two. Then mix it all up the best you can. Then take a sandwich bag full of the well mixed soil. There is your sample.
 
Could drive a pipe in the ground about 6-8 inches then poke the dirt/mud out and dry as JD said mix then pull bag for sample.
 
In Alabama the Extension Service drops off kits at local feed & seed stores. Your state may be similar. The kit has instructions and is free. Collect your sample as described and mail it in to Auburn University. Cost for anaylses is $12 I believe. The report tells you how much fertilizer is needed for various crops.
 
A free soil sampling is worth what you pay for it,I used to raise a lot of sweet corn and no matter what soil sample I sent in the free state ag dept I got back to grow sweet corn
500 lbs fertilizer and 2 tons lime to the acre.I even went up in the mountain and got some of the poorest dirt I could find that has a ph under 5 and got the same thing back from the soil sample test.
 
I had my cooperative do it. They came out with a Gator with GPS and took samples from 2 1/2 acre grids. Their agronomist provided a map of my farms with the results and a fertilizer plan based on each crop I raise. Cost was very little.
 
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