Soil, water and plant tissue testing at Wollongbar Primary Industries Institute – NSW (Video)
In this NSW DPI Schools Program video, staff from the Wollongbar Environmental Lab provide a guided tour of the different analytical tests that the facility conducts for NSW farmers. They explain how soil, water and plant samples are received, how the sample is prepared, how the samples are tested for electrical conductivity and pH, how extracting solutions are used for testing plant-available nitrogen and phosphorus. The equipment discussed includes the the Leco total nitrogen and total carbon analyser, the flow injection analyser used for testing nutrients and salinity, and the inductively coupled plasma device and optical emission spectrometer used for testing heavy metals. While the video was produced for NSW schools, it is useful for anyone interested seeing how laboratory soil testing works [23:19].#
Audience: RSP, tertiary students, landholders, SFSG, consultants, school students
State: ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
Author/Editor: S Morrision, C Hunt, M Samithamby and S Leahy
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