{"id":1503,"date":"2020-08-31T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2020-08-31T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:55:51","slug":"soil-testing-time-in-south-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/soil-testing-time-in-south-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Testing Time in South Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/files\/2016\/07\/Soil-Probe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-511\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/files\/2016\/07\/Soil-Probe-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/files\/2016\/07\/Soil-Probe-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/files\/2016\/07\/Soil-Probe.png 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Mid-Coast IPM Program is equipped to soil test with a hydraulic soil probe that samples to a depth of 24&#8243;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since 2013, we have sampled fields in Calhoun, Refugio, and Victoria Counties and found soil nitrogen levels ranging between 11 and 168 lbs N per acre. This can be a opportunity to reducing costs without affecting yields. Average fields can<strong> save $15-$20<\/strong> by reducing fertilizer rates based on soil tests to 24&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>You may find this service from several different sources including your IPM program in Calhoun, Refugio and Victoria Counties.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Stephen Biles for more information and to sign up to have your fields sampled:<br \/>\n361-552-3324 (Office)<br \/>\n361-920-1138 (Mobile) or<br \/>\nbiles-sp@tamu.edu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/files\/2020\/08\/2020-Soil-Testing-Flier.pdf\">2020 Soil Testing Flier<\/a><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 294px;\" width=\"416\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" width=\"396\">Nitrogen Levels from soil test in Calhoun, Refugio and Victoria Counties (2013-2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"99\">\u00a0N 0-6&#8243; \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Lbs\/A<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"99\">\u00a0N 6-24&#8243; \u00a0\u00a0 Lbs\/A<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"99\">\u00a0Total N \u00a0 \u00a0 Lbs\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mean<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">20.7<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">41.5<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">62.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Median<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">16.0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">36.3<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">51.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Max<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">72.0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">120.8<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">168.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Min<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">2.0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">1.0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">11.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mid-Coast IPM Program is equipped to soil test with a hydraulic soil probe that samples to a depth of 24&#8243;.\u00a0 Since 2013, we have sampled fields in Calhoun, Refugio, and Victoria Counties and found soil nitrogen levels ranging between 11 and 168 lbs N per acre. This can be a opportunity to reducing costs without affecting yields. Average fields can save $15-$20 by reducing fertilizer rates based on soil tests to 24&#8243;. You may find this service from several different sources including your IPM program in Calhoun,&#8230; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/soil-testing-time-in-south-texas\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1158,"featured_media":1510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[35,34,33],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pest-management-news","tag-nitrogen","tag-soil-fertility","tag-soil-testing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Soil Testing Time in South Texas - Mid-Coast IPM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/mid-coast-ipm\/soil-testing-time-in-south-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Soil Testing Time in South Texas - Mid-Coast IPM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Mid-Coast IPM Program is equipped to soil test with a hydraulic soil probe that samples to a depth of 24&#8243;.\u00a0 Since 2013, we have sampled fields in Calhoun, Refugio, and Victoria Counties and found soil nitrogen levels ranging between 11 and 168 lbs N per acre. 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