How We Sample Golf Course Soil for BeCrop and Haney Tests

Each March and August, ECO2MIX samples the fairways at Seven Oaks Country Club in Bakersfield, California, a course on carbonic acid treatment for more than four years. A probe sample is taken on every hole, about halfway down the fairway and four to five feet from the rough, and blended into one composite. Biome Makers runs a BeCrop test for soil microbiology and a Haney test for nutrient availability, and the spring and late summer results are compared. BeCrop results from the same course in 2022 are in the TurfNet webinar.

[00:00:00] Hello guys. Here we are in a chilly but beautiful Thursday morning at Seven Oaks Country Club in Bakersfield, California. We are taking soil samples to see what changes in the soil using our carbon acid treatment, ECO2MIX. We’ve been in this golf course for more than four years now with excellent results, and every year we take samples in March and in August, just to compare how good is the golf doing?

[00:00:34] We take these soil samples on every hole, usually halfway on the fairway, around four to five feet, from the rough, and we use the soil probe. We make a compound sample that we blend it and we send the results to BiomeMakers and they run two different tests, BeCrop, and Haney.

[00:00:57] With that, we know how the microbes and the microbiology in the soil changes and all the nutrients that is available for the plant, in this case, turfgrass. And then we take samples again in August and compare what happened during the season.