NRM has launched an online course developed in partnership with BASIS which will give those advising potato growers a fuller understanding of soil analysis.
Entitled Laboratory Analysis 1: Soil Nutrients and written by NRM agronomists, it is the first in a two-part series.
The programme is structured to guide participants through key aspects of soil nutrient analysis, exploring sample quality and the importance of precise sampling, then moves on to explaining units of measurement and the interpretation of laboratory nutrient results. The final section describes the laboratory process itself, from sample preparation to reporting results, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how nutrients are measured.
Course co-author Dr Sajjad Awan who is Soil & Crop Nutrition Agronomist at NRM, said: “Understanding soil nutrients is fundamental to making informed decisions to better manage crops and soils.”
