How Is Soil Sampling Changing?

Watch as Dr. Steven Hall, an associate professor at Iowa State University, talks us through new soil sampling methods that could decrease labor time and cost.

Curious about new soil sampling techniques and want to learn more? Check out these resources:

• “Can Low-Cost, Handheld Spectroscopy Tools Coupled with Remote Sensing Accurately Estimate Soil Organic Carbon in Semi-Arid Grazing Lands?” by Goodwin et al, 2022.
• “Tweaking Sampling Depths for No-Till Soils” in CSA News
• “The cost-effectiveness of reflectance spectroscopy for estimating soil organic carbon” by Li et al, 2021

Or dig into these other Decode 6 articles, videos, and podcast episodes:

• Watch “How to Take Manual Soil Cores for Soil Carbon Measurement“
• Read “How is soil carbon measured, reported, and verified?“
• Read “What is the soil carbon pool?“
• Read “How do you calculate soil carbon stock?“
• Listen to “How do you measure soil carbon?“