• Basic Information
• Additional Info

Basic Information

• Project No. and Title: NCERA13 : Soil Testing and Plant Analysis
• Period Covered: 10/01/2024 to 09/30/2025
• Date of Report: 04/21/2025
• Annual Meeting Dates: 02/24/2025 to 02/25/2025

Participants

Daniel Kaiser, University of Minnesota, representative (Chair) Antonio Mallarino, Iowa State University, representative M Rasel Parvej, University of Missouri, representative John Jones, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, representative (Incoming Chair) Andrew Stammer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, representative Matthew Ruark, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dorivar Ruiz Diaz, Kansas State University, representative Sunjeong Park, Ohio State University, representative Manbir Rakkar, (virtual) Ohio State University Brady Goetle, (virtual) North Dakota State University Sylvie Brouder (virtual) Purdue, representative Javed Iqbal, (virtual) University of Nebraska-Lincoln, representative Not represented: Michigan State University South Dakota State University

Accomplishments

Impacts

1. The Fertilizer Response Support Tool (soiltestFRST.org) went live in 2024. There currently are data from all the participating NCERA013 states in the response database. Iowa leads the database with 580 total trials, Ohio with 522 trials, Missouri with 139, Nebraska with 68, Minnesota with 38, Indiana with 30, North Dakota with 25, South Dakota with 21, Michigan with 14, Illinois with 8, and Kansas with 5 for a total of 1450 for the region. The tool was just launched and there is no way to look at the impact that the NCERA013 data has compared to other states and regions.
2. At least an additional 6 field trials of data were added from the region from researchers on the committee. The USDA-CIG project aims to further increase additional data into the first database targeting around 80 new sites over the next three years.
3. Our annual workshop drew 30 in attendance where we covered several topics on current soil test methods that have been topics of questiosn and discussions by soil testing labs

Publications