Following the small grain harvest, AGVISE Laboratories soil scientist John Breker says it is important to get soil data before moving onto fall tillage. This is especially important for immobile nutrients. “If you try to take samples after a chisel plow has gone through, it gets rough and we get variability in our soil test results from year to year.” Fields that received less rain this growing season will have greater residual nitrogen levels. Breker notes that some early test results are showing over 100 pounds of leftover nitrogen while other readings are as low as 40 pounds. Listen to the full interview with John Breker here.
