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Mapping texture with Soil EC captures this key physical property. Soil EC is soil electrical conductivity – a measurement of how much electrical current soil can conduct. It’s an effective way to map soil texture because smaller soil particles such as clay conduct more current than larger silt and sand particles. Growers, consultants, and suppliers are Veris soil EC mapping to devise management zones, set soil sampling locations, create variable rate seeding prescriptions, better manage nitrogen applications, and improve irrigation prescriptions - just to name a few uses of Veris EC maps.

An indicator of past productivity and a driver of future yields. If you want to vary inputs based on productive capacity, a precise map of organic matter is crucial. Because organic matter forms slowly over time, the soils that are higher in organic matter possess the combination of soil texture, internal drainage, landscape position, and other factors that over long periods of time have consistently generated additional plant growth - resulting in higher OM. Now, that increased OM level also leads to even higher productive capacity - due to better water and nutrient - holding ability, nitrogen mineralization and soil structure. Most precision agriculture applications can be improved with an accurate OM map layer - variable rate population, nitrogen management, sampling zones, soil amendments, herbicides, cultivar selection, and more.

High resolution pH maps improve management of this key soil property. Soil pH is an important factor in crop production. Nutrient usage, crop growth, and herbicide activity are all affected by the pH of the soil. Grid samples are simply not dense enough to do the job. Within many 2.5 acre (1ha) grids, there is a wide range of pH values, often ranging from soils that call for lime to soils that are already extremely high in pH.