What is the best way to get tests on a couple of our plots? Does the extension service still do it? After 40 years we figure it might be time to get a couple of plots tested.

I'd go by the co op and get some bags and fill them up and either take them back to them or send them off yourself and wait on the results

Don’t use Auburn.

Why not?

I used Auburn and was very pleased. I sent mine in using ziploc bags that I labeled and paid $7.50 a sample. Got the test results emailed to in very quickly. Told them what I wanted to plant and got some specific guidance on those crops too. I would use them again.

The negative I have heard has been about using WTI for soil testing.

i need to do this but never have. i want to have some successful honey holes.
Anyone have auburns info that i can have and instructions to do such?

I used the county extension service. They provided the kit and mailed it. Cost $7 then.

I use Auburn and write Roll Tide on the check.

They probably gave you fake results

Take it to the place you buy from in a paper bag so it breathes.We’re in the same area and AFC or Safford has never changed me.

Go to a local co-op, buy a bag, fill it up and take it back to them. Your original cost pays for the shipping and for the results coming back to you. You can write on the bag what type of seed you are going to plant and they will tell you in the results what you need to do for the soil for your choice of seeds

You can download the form online and mail the soil in.

That is what I'm going to do. Already have the form printed.

The Coop in Selma did mine for me and didn't charge me anything. I did buy my lime from them after the test results came in though.

I remember a thread some time back that was about NOT using Auburn for some reason or other. IIRC even 257 said he didn't use AU which is the reason I remember something about it. Tried a search but search sucks now with the 1 year limit. Couldn't find it.

This one?


From this thread in the Quality Deer Management forum...
Soil sample results?

And FYI, you can change the search parameters to go back farther than a year...in the DATE RANGE section on the search page, delete the 1 and click the drop down arrow in the YEARS block. It will give you 5 options...a blank, then DAY(S), WEEK(S), MONTH(S), YEAR(S). Just click the blank area above DAY(S) and it will go back farther than a year.

WHAT site u go to for the form?

Much obliged..