Testing soil for food plots

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I have something similar to it, but they really are a waste of good money. Bottom line is you need to send off like everyone says. It is the best way to gauge what you need. If you are in the south and are hunting around a fair amount of pines, you will need lime and a shite load ton of it.

We lime pretty much every year and send off soil samples about every 3 years. This seems to keep up about where we need/want to be.

Thanks! Looks like I will be sending off some samples.

simple advice for piney areas... when in doubt, add an extra ton of lime.

We add lime every year and are just now getting our soil close to where it needs to be.

If the soil is consistent within the individual plots, I would suggest breaking those areas into 3rds for sampling.

Take around 10 evenly dispersed samples per 3rd down to around 6". Put each of those samples into a ziplock bag and try to evenly mix all the individual samples. Take your sample that you will send off from those mixed samples. It's called composite sampling and will give you an average of the sampled area. Mixing those individual samples is really important.

If you notice an area where the soil is different within a plot, sample it separately using the same method.