Lab Testing
Keep soil and tissue samples together, import lab results from CSV or PDF, read the interpretation and follow nutrient trends
Lab Testing keeps your soil and tissue samples, their results and what they mean in one place, so you can see how your soil changes year on year.
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What's on each tab?
Samples
Every sample with its reference, type, location, date, lab and status. Search, or filter by Soil or Tissue and by status: Pending, Sent, Received or Analysed.
Click New sample to add one. You'll need a Sample reference, the Test type and the Sample date. Location, lab name and notes are optional.
Import
Bring a lab's results straight in from a file — see Import lab results.
Trends
Pick Soil trends or Tissue trends, then choose the nutrients to plot. Each nutrient shows whether it's increasing, decreasing or stable over your samples.
Mappings
Saved column mappings for your lab's files, so future imports line up the same way. You can delete one you no longer need.
How do I import results?
On the Import tab, pick Soil or Tissue, choose the lab's format (NRM or Lancrop/SGS), pick the CSV or PDF the lab sent you and click Import results. TurfWise reads the file — even a scanned PDF, though that can take a few minutes — and adds every sample and its results in one go.
The full walkthrough, including which files work and how to fix a file that won't read, is in Import lab results.
What does the interpretation tell me?
Open a sample to see its details. Under Interpretation, each nutrient gets a status: Deficient, Low, Optimal, High or Excessive. You may also see Concerns, Positives and Recommendations.
If results are in but haven't been interpreted, click Run interpretation. You can run it again after results change.
Deleting a sample
Delete on a sample asks Delete this sample? before anything is removed, so check you have the right one.