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This guideline is a resource for growers, agronomists, and crop advisors on best practice soil nutrient sampling for outdoor vegetable cropping. It supports implementing practices within the Horticulture NZ Code of Practice for Nutrient Management.

A quick reference sampling guide accompanies this guideline.

This quick guide is a resource for growers, agronomists, and crop advisors on best practice soil nutrient sampling for outdoor vegetable cropping. It supports implementing practices within the Horticulture NZ Code of
Practice for Nutrient Management.

This quick guide accompanies the Soil Nutrient Sampling for Vegetable Crops - User Guidance.

This is the final report of the Sustainable Vegetable Systems project. This programme has developed a new tool to enable vegetable growers to better manage inputs to meet economic crop production needs, while reducing environmental impact.

This is the final report of the Sustainable Vegetable Systems project. This programme has developed a new tool to enable vegetable growers to better manage inputs to meet economic crop production needs, while reducing environmental impact.

This User Guide has been prepared by Sarah Dobson and Andrew Barber of Agrilink NZ, with contributions from the wider Sustainable Vegetable Systems project team. The primary purpose of this Guide is to support users of the SVS Tool, www.svstool.co.nz. The SVS Tool is the main output from the Sustainable Vegetable Systems project.

Use these guidelines to collect a soil sample(s) and obtain mineral N and PMN test values from a commercial laboratory.

This document steps through the procedure for sampling vegetable crops for residue testing.

This report summarises the first six months of tile drain monitoring throughout spring and summer in the SFFF “What’s Coming Out of Tile Drains?” project

This guide is designed to assist you in making decisions related to installing and maintaining vegetated buffer strips.

This background material is supporting information to the Vegetated Buffer Strips Code of Practice.