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Testing your soil is the MOST IMPORTANT STEP for ensuring food plot success. It ensures the most attractive, nutritious, and productive food plot possible. Whitetail Institute's Soil Test Kit is very easy to use and everything that you need is included. Furthermore, you will receive your results by mail or email within one week. The results are very easy to understand as well. Not all soils are the same. Some soils are heavier, some are lighter, and some hold lime and fertilizer longer than others. Most high-quality forages grow best in soils with a neutral soil pH between 6.5 and 7.5. If soil pH is below that (and most fallow soils are), nutrients are bound up in the soil and the plants cannot access them. In this instance of the pH being below 6.5, you would need to add lime to raise the soil pH level. Without a Soil Test Kit, you would not know how much lime and fertilizer are needed to ensure the greatest health of your forage. Different types of forages have different fertilizer requirements. The scientific precision of the Whitetail Institute's Soil Test Kit allows you to make informed decisions on how much fertilizer and which kinds are needed. This is because a laboratory soil test such as Whitetail Institute's Soil Test can tell you very precisely what your existing soil nutrient levels are. You will be able to see how much Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca), and Magnesium (Mg) are in your soil. With all of this information, you will be able to move forward with confidence knowing you are really providing your soil with what is needed so that in turn your soil can provide you with the best possible forage. Whitetail Institut's Soil Test Kit tells you exactly how much lime and fertilizer is needed for optimum results (saving you the time you might have spent trying to guess how much is needed) and makes sure you don't buy more than you need. It also ensures that your money is not wasted. For example, let's say the soil pH in your plot is 5.0, which is highly acidic. If the soil pH is below 6.5 then the nutrients in the soil are bound up and the plants cannot access them. If you fertilize and plant without adding lime to raise the soil pH first, the plants will only be able to access about half of the nutrients in the fertilizer you put out. That means that however much you spent on fertilizer, you just wasted half of your money. A soil test can prevent this from happening. Testing your soil is the MOST IMPORTANT STEP for ensuring food plot success. Whitetail Institute’s Soil Test Kitshows you exactly how much lime and fertilizer is required and makes sure you don’t buy more than you need. A soil test can be the difference between the best food you can imagine and total failure.



