Analysis Laboratory

Soil Analysis
Farmers strive to grow healthy plants that produce an economic yield while minimizing environmental impact. An important part of farming is providing plants with proper amounts of lime and essential nutrients. Soil testing can be used to indicate if additional nutrients are needed to achieve optimal yield. Applying the correct amount of nutrient helps achieve desirable yields and quality, while protecting the environment from excess nutrients.

Commercial Vegetables

Successful vegetable growers use soil testing as a guide to fertilizer management. Soil testing helps growers to make informed decisions about fertilizer use and helps protect the environment from pollution by excess fertilizer nutrients.

Ornamentals
A productive soil is essential for healthy, vigorous growth of ornamental plants in the landscape. It assures rapid plant establishment by providing a favorable environment for the developing root system. Information from a soil test will aid in selecting a proper liming and fertilization program to correct problems associated with poor plant growth, such as lack or excess of certain plant nutrients and the level of soil acidity or alkalinity.

Environmental analysis
Environmental AnalysisEnvironmental analysis helps growers make responsible decisions about the use of farm, municipal and industrial wastes and by-products, as fertilizer materials or topsoil for crop production or landscaping.

Field Crops and Forages
Field Crops Knowing and maintaining correct soil pH and nutrient concentrations before seed planting and after establishment is important for obtaining optimum economic forage and grain yields of high quality.
Fruit
FruitAll fruiting plants require fertile soil with optimum pH and balanced nutrients. The lime and fertilizer rates recommended on your CNAL soil test report serve this purpose. Precise fertility management for fruit crops requires plant tissue analyses as well as soil tests.
Plant Tissue Analysis
Plant Tissue AnalysisPlant tissue analysis can indicate whether plants contain the concentrations of essential nutrients necessary for optimum growth. Results help growers monitor nutrient uptake, correct deficiencies before they reach a critical stage, and for some crops, time harvest appropriately.