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Joined: Jan 2014
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Lucky Bastage
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Lucky Bastage
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Those of you that send off soil samples. Do you use Auburn or others? I was looking at the Auburn website earlier, but never could find if they provide the soil sample boxes or what?
The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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They Call Me Gator 🐊
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I got my boxes at my county extension office and sent them to the address on Auburn’s website. I did mine back in May so I could have the lime in the ground by June
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12 point
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I use Biologic labs and get a report emailed within 72 hours usually. They use a private lab. Quick and painless. I just follow instructions and mail in.
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You don't need one of the special boxes; the plastic bags work. I did this about a year ago and I got the results within a week after mailing them to auburn.
There should be instructions online telling you exactly what to do and how to bag it.
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10 point
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I use Auburn and get the boxes at the county extension office at the court house
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Lucky Bastage
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Lucky Bastage
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You don't need one of the special boxes; the plastic bags work. I did this about a year ago and I got the results within a week after mailing them to auburn.
There should be instructions online telling you exactly what to do and how to bag it. Are you using ziploc bags or approved bags that they recommend. I looked all over their page about soil testing and the form to fill out for it and found no info about bags or boxes. I'm fine with using paper or plastic, just needed to know where to get them or if it mattered.
The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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Lucky Bastage
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Lucky Bastage
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Looks like I pass the County Extension office several times a week. I'll swing by and see them. Thanks, fellas.
The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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I use Auburn.........my son turned them in on campus
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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I just use a ziplock bag. Always had an email with results within 5 days...usually within 3.
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In answer to your original question there is also Waters Laboratories in GA that I’ve used before.
257 recommends anyone other than Auburn (and he is an Auburn fan). He feels they haven’t kept up with changing practices and theory (or something along those lines).
Paper bags versus ziplocks isn’t a big deal unless some of your soil is wet. Stop by the Extension Office and get the paper bags if you’re sending them to Auburn. Go to a local chemical dealer (Helena Chemical or similar) if you want to send them somewhere else. If you’re not buying the fertilizer from them be prepared to pay for the bags or be told “we just ran out”.
You didn’t ask this either but my routine was to get three samples in each plot about the size of a softball. Put them in a 5 gallon bucket and mix them up good. Then fill up the bag with that and dump the excess. Getting a sample from just one place in each plot runs the risk of that having been a place fertilizer or lime was spilled and getting an analysis that doesn’t represent the dirt across the whole plot.
Also don’t forget to label the samples so you know where is where and what.
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Lucky Bastage
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Lucky Bastage
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In answer to your original question there is also Waters Laboratories in GA that I’ve used before.
257 recommends anyone other than Auburn (and he is an Auburn fan). He feels they haven’t kept up with changing practices and theory (or something along those lines).
Paper bags versus ziplocks isn’t a big deal unless some of your soil is wet. Stop by the Extension Office and get the paper bags if you’re sending them to Auburn. Go to a local chemical dealer (Helena Chemical or similar) if you want to send them somewhere else. If you’re not buying the fertilizer from them be prepared to pay for the bags or be told “we just ran out”.
You didn’t ask this either but my routine was to get three samples in each plot about the size of a softball. Put them in a 5 gallon bucket and mix them up good. Then fill up the bag with that and dump the excess. Getting a sample from just one place in each plot runs the risk of that having been a place fertilizer or lime was spilled and getting an analysis that doesn’t represent the dirt across the whole plot.
Also don’t forget to label the samples so you know where is where and what. Gotcha. I’m not married to Auburn and open to whoever does the best or what not. I’m just uneducated in that Dept. I didn’t think about it until now but I can ask our farmers how or who they sample with on the land that they are row cropping for us, too.
The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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spike
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I use Waters AG Lab in Camilla Ga. I haven’t sent anything to Auburn in 20 years.
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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The coop in Albertville will send your samples off for you. It is close to the same price as Auburn, but a lot easier. No trip to extension office or post office. You could check with Jackson County coop they may do the same thing.
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4 point
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Whoever you choose be sure to opt for the “emailed results” for a little quicker turnaround time. I know Auburn offers this, not sure of the others
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Booner
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Booner
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All I know is that professor jesse Goldberg is the man when it comes to soil and stool samples. He got promoted to researcher at Aubrin.
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