Soil and Tissue Analyses: Do They Correlate?

As a precursor to development of the Minimum Levels for Sustainable Nutrition (MLSN) guidelines with Dr. Micah Woods at the Asian Turfgrass Center, PACE studied soil and tissue testing data in an effort to understand the relationships between soil and tissue chemical test results. The results were not encouraging and an new approach was needed. MLSN guidelines were developed using an entirely different approach for identifying the threshold levels for turfgrass nutrition compared to the methods descirbed below. This Update…