Get the Most From Your Fertilizer:
The Benefits of Grid Sampling and SoilIQ

Maximizing the efficiency of your fertilizer applications is essential to ensuring a profitable growing season, but with the rising cost of inputs, precision is key. Farmers who take advantage of grid sampling and advanced tools like SoilIQ are not only saving money but also improving yields. Here’s how these can help you get the most from your fertilizer.

What is Grid Sampling?

Grid sampling is a soil analysis method that divides a field into smaller zones or grids to assess the specific nutrient needs of each section. Unlike traditional soil sampling, which uses larger, uniform sampling zones, grid sampling allows for a detailed view of nutrient variability across your field.

Benefits of Grid Sampling:

Optimized Fertilizer Application

Grid sampling gives you a precise understanding of the nutrient levels in each area of your field, so you can apply the right amount of fertilizer where it’s needed most. This precision prevents over-application in nutrient-rich areas and under-application in nutrient-deficient areas, ensuring your crops get exactly what they need.

Cost Savings

With targeted applications, you’re only using the necessary amount of fertilizer in each zone, which reduces waste and lowers input costs. While grid sampling is an investment, the efficiency gained often pays for itself through savings and improved yields.

Increased Yield Potential

When your fertility program is customized to the unique needs of each acre, you create the best possible environment for your crops. That means healthier plants, stronger growth, and ultimately higher yields.

Better Soil Health Management

Grid sampling also helps with long-term planning. By tracking changes over time, you can make smarter fertility decisions that protect soil health and set your farm up for continued success year after year.


How SoilIQ Takes Your Farm Further

Your soil is the foundation of every decision you make on the farm. Guessing is no longer enough—today’s farming requires precision backed by data. That’s where SoilIQ comes in.

SoilIQ combines the power of grid sampling with predictive analytics that give you a clear, science-backed view of your fields. With this technology, you can:

Target fertilizer and lime applications exactly where they’re needed.
Avoid the costly mistakes of over- or under-applying inputs.
Improve consistency and profitability by managing variability acre by acre.

The SoilIQ Advantage

Profitability-Focused Decisions

SoilIQ is designed to do more than just increase yield—it helps you improve your bottom line. By aligning fertility, soil health, and crop potential, you make decisions that deliver the best return on every dollar spent.

Data-Driven Insights

SoilIQ is designed to do more than just increase yield—it helps you improve your bottom line. By aligning fertility, soil health, and crop potential, you make decisions that deliver the best return on every dollar spent.

Advanced Predictive Analytics

SoilIQ doesn’t just show you where your soil is today—it helps forecast what it needs for tomorrow. This predictive approach allows you to manage your fields proactively, staying ahead of potential issues and maximizing every acre’s potential.

Ongoing Agronomic Support

When you choose SoilIQ, you don’t just get data—you get a partner. The Ag Plus team works with you to interpret results and build strategies that fit your farm’s unique challenges and opportunities.


Make the Most of Your Fertilizer Investment with Grid Sampling and SoilIQ

In today’s competitive farming environment, the difference between a good year and a great year comes down to how effectively you manage your inputs. Grid sampling paired with SoilIQ gives you the precision, insights, and confidence to maximize your fertilizer investment.

Talk to one of our Ag Plus agronomy experts today to see how we can help you unlock your fields’ full potential.

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