
When taking a baseline of the soils on a farm, you want to ensure that you’re able to collect results from different soil types and farming methods, so you get a good sense of the variability of your soils.
So, if you know you have three different soil types across your farm, you’ll want to choose three fields or areas that represent those soil types for testing. If you have fields under both permanent pasture and cropping, it makes sense to choose fields under both types of management for testing in Soilmentor, so you can make informed regenerative decisions under both types of management.
If performance of certain fields is a concern, it’s always interesting to choose these fields for soil testing, and compare results with a field or area that performs well, so you can set realistic goals for where you want your soils to build to, within your context.



Example Soilmentor setup
- Choose four fields you are interested in monitoring, e.g:
1. Low performance crop field (soil type: heavy, clay)
2. High performance crop field (soil type: heavy, clay)
3. Average performance crop field (soil type: light, sandy)
4. Permanent pasture grazed field (soil type: medium, sandy clay)
1. Low performance crop field (soil type: heavy, clay)
2. High performance crop field (soil type: heavy, clay)
3. Average performance crop field (soil type: light, sandy)
4. Permanent pasture grazed field (soil type: medium, sandy clay)