To be fair to the agronomist, dirt is soil that’s out of place. Whether it’s in your garden, lawn or field routine soil sampling can be beneficial.
With the cooler fall weather, many of us are drawn outside to catch up on some of the landscape work that we have put off during the heat of the summer. Fall through winter is an excellent time to plant trees and shrubs in the landscape.
The forest products industry contributes to each parish economy in several ways, including jobs, wages and purchases in the local economies.
All lawns have a layer thatch, which is not always harmful to the grass. What is thatch? Thatch is a layer of living and dead grass plant parts and clippings located between the soil surface and the green growing grass.
The following illustrated steps can be used as a general guideline for collecting and submitting soil samples to the LSU AgCenter Soil Testing Laboratory.