The Importance of Soil Sampling
Soil sampling and analysis can provide useful information about the chemical and physical conditions of soil in a specific location.
This information can be used to optimize plant growth, assist in solving soil-related problems, or determine the extend of contamination for a remediation plan.
For agriculture, soil sampling results can indicate problems that may include soils having excess salts, high or low pH, problematic soil texture, adverse nutrient levels, and detrimental contaminant levels in the soil and soil vapor. The results obtained from sampling can be useful for guidance in soil and crop management decisions.
Soil areas can be contaminated naturally or from manmade sources. Proper soil testing methods can detect hazardous containments like arsenic, barium, mercury, cadmium and lead. Dangerous levels of these contaminants in soil pose health hazards to people and local wildlife and work or play in the dirt, breathe the polluted wind-blown dust, or eat the plants grown in the contaminated soil. Water sources that flow over or through contaminated soil can affect the health of species further away that drink, or bathe or are nourished, by the water as it flows downstream.
For agriculture, soil sampling results can indicate problems that may include soils having excess salts, high or low pH, problematic soil texture, adverse nutrient levels, and detrimental contaminant levels in the soil and soil vapor. The results obtained from sampling can be useful for guidance in soil and crop management decisions.
EON Products, Inc. provides a selection of the finest-quality soil and soil gas sampling tools and kits that can be used in many applications. Whether the user needs to recover vapor, identify and measure elements in the field, intact cores, sludge or other materials, our sampling kits allow quick and easy sampling of soil.
To learn more about our soil hand augers, coring instruments, XRF analyzers or vapor probes, contact EON today or shop our online store.