PEI Soil Quality tested by Dept. of Agriculture

The PEI Department of Agriculture is getting out into the province’s growing fields to sample soil and check the earth quality across the Island.  The Soil Quality Monitoring Project says their work helps producers decide on what crops are best suited to grow based on the composition of the earth.  The project has been running since 1998, measuring and monitoring soil quality across the province while helping farmers improve their yields through soil management.  Each year, 1/3rd of all the soil quality monitoring agricultural sites are sampled, so that after every three years, one full cycle has been collected.