(Image from Veris Site)
I heard about this at a conference today. Veris has a soil probe that uses Near InfraRed to analyze and record soil properties on the fly. It appears that so far they just measure carbon but I can see this being tremendously useful for measuring phosphorous levels across a field.
Cliff Loewen and Scott Dick demonstrated that phosphorous levels can vary wildly on manured fields. A tool such as this one could be used for cost-effectively monitoring phosphorous levels on manured fields. With the phosphorous regulations coming into effect across the whole province, I’d love to have a better picture of hot spots without spending several hundred dollars per field to get grid soil tests done.
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