Soil Testing on Football, Baseball and Soccer Fields
Divide the field into 3 sections lengthwise using the existing hash marks or in some other manner visually. Using a coring tool, pull 3-4 plugs from each section over the length of the field. Be careful to stay away from the chalk lines and painted numbers.
For each plug, go 3-4” deep as that is the usual primary rooting depth. If you have a problem area, you’ll have to take a separate sample and then the two can be compared easily. If you wish to take deeper samples, please make those another complete sample as that will be the secondary rooting depth. I always take the whole plug which includes the grass and organic material on top.
Put the plugs into a sample bag without drying then out. The lab will do that for you. Close up the bag and mark the location and the field on the outside (example—Lindale ISD and FB#1 or FBPR#1).
The sample bag can be mailed after a separate instruction sheet is filled out. If you don’t have a specific lab instruction sheet just use a blank sheet of paper and list the location and the fields and tell them to do tests # 1A, 2 and 3. You’ll need an account # to charge the analysis to, so call me and I’ll provide you with a #.
Mail by Priority mail to: Midwest Labs, 13611 “B” Street, Omaha, NE 68144.
On Baseball fields I pull a sample from the infield and a sample from the outfield since those areas are usually different grass and /or soil.
Softball fields are usually one sample from the outfield.
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