What does it measure?
Provides a complete analysis of the organic-bound as well as inorganic Nitrogen (N) , Phosphate (P) and Potassium (K) together with the microbial-assisted potential to make these nutrients available to the next crop. The analysis also provides the availability of Calcium (Ca) and Iron (Fe) and will be extended to include the complete micro-element analysis.
Relevance to Soil Health?
There is a direct relationship between the health status of a soil and the soil’s ability to synthesize through microbial assistance particularly Nitrogen (N), Phosphorous (P) and Sulphur (S) into an organic form and to release these nutrients on demand through a process of mineralization to the plant roots. The higher the nutrient content of N, P & S in an organic form the better the health status. The balance of the required plant nutrients are released from the soil minerals through the mild acidic root exudate assisted by specific microbial activity
Conclusions from results?
The results provide a biologically based nutrient analyses, which particularly for Nitrogen and Phosphorous in the organic form is never taken into account in a conventional chemically based analyses which always leads to an over estimate of fertilizer requirements.