The best fertiliser programme starts with a good soil sample

Farmer's WeeklyJeanne Van der Merwe · 27 October 2026 at 03:00

There is no bigger motivator for fine-tuning a crop nutrition programme than the rising cost of fertiliser. Soil analysis is a powerful tool to optimise fertiliser applications, but a soil analysis is only as good as the soil sample on which it is based.

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