Date
2008/07/17
Organisations
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
Authors
MA Hamza
About
The aim of this report is to help people who are interested in soil science, but are not specialists in this area, to better understand soil analysis reports in particular, and soil data in general.
Contents
- Introduction
- Forms of nutrients in soils
- Soil physical properties
- Calcium to magnesium (Ca: Mg) and other cation ratios
- Soil reaction, pH
- Sodicity
- Salinity (EC)
- Cation exchange capacity (CEC)
- Organic matter (OM)
- Nitrogen (N)
- Sulphur (S)
- Phosphorus (P)
- Calcium (Ca)
- Magnesium (Mg)
- Potassium(K)
- Cobalt (Co)
- Boron (B)
- Iron (Fe)
- Manganese (Mn)
- Copper (Cu)
- Zinc (Zn)
- Molybdenum (Mo)
- Sodium (Na)
- Aluminium (Al)
- Glossary
- References