Solvita Blog
WEBINAR: Combating Dry Conditions with Soil Health – Presented by Rebecca Harvey (November 15th, 2024, 11am CST)
Good Afternoon, Is dry weather keeping you from getting those soil samples? You’re not alone. Across the U.S., soil labs and collectors are experiencing lower productivity due to compaction and drought—conditions that may highlight deeper soil health issues. Join us...
Solvita IRTH C02 Respirometer back in stock!
IRTH C02 Respirometer Solvita IRTH C02 Respirometer is Back in Stock News Release 1.17.2024
Basal respiration in Africa soil study reveals validity of Solvita methods
Basal respiration study compares soil testing methods Kenya soil from Conservation (TOP- cover crops, reduced tillage) and Traditional (BOTTOM- no cover crop, tilled) showed 55 vs 28 ppm Solvita Basal respiration CO2 after 7 years. A study reported in the Sept 2022...
Rebecca Harvey has joined Woods End Laboratories LLC as Chief Executive Officer
Mount Vernon, Maine, June 9, 2022- Woods End Laboratories LLC, a US based leader in agricultural soil health testing, announced that Rebecca Harvey, PhD has joined the organization as Chief Executive Officer. Rebecca will lead the organization to further grow its...
Solvita Compost Test Reveals Wide Range CO2 Detection using IRGA
Recent tests comparing Solvita’s compost maturity test with infrared spectroscopy have revealed that the Solvita “Hi-CO2” gel corresponds quantitatively to a wide range of CO2 levels typical of active composts. Solvita for compost was designed empirically to indicate...
Solvita Scores High against Infrared Methodologies in New England Dairy Soils
Dairy farm soils tend to exhibit high biology activity, credit due to the microbe-stimulating effect of long-term manuring. How well can this be detected with various respiration protocols? Woods End Laboratories examined soils from 62 dairy farm soils in three New...
Soil Sieving Study Examines Artifacts in Respiration, SLAN, VAST
A recent Soil Sieving Study examines how soil sieving for proficiency samples affects soil health test parameters. The work, a collaboration of Brinton and the Utah State PSC appears in the international peer-reviewed Agriculture Research and Technology Journal. A...
Solvita achieves publishing milestone … more than 90 journal articles
The Solvita soil test method has been published in more than , a recent tally shows. A nearly equal amount of published papers report the Solvita compost test, a widely-popular procedure that combines CO2 and NH3 emissions to obtain a useful index for practical...
Soil CO2 Methods in the Spotlight
Solvita is a leading commercial test worldwide for soil CO2 respiration (and compost maturity) and is often in comparisons with newer soil respiration methods vying for market share. Such is the case in a recent study by Oklahoma State University which proposed a...
Solvita SLAN Probe Detects Nitrate Nitrogen
Solvita announced quantitative recovery of nitrate nitrogen via a one-step chemistry conversion, using a Solvtia SLAN probe, “a small feat of basic chemistry” says inventor Brinton. The Solvita SLAN test normally detects ammonia, ammonium and amines released when...
Solvita Releases Technical Memo Series
Have you wondered if limestone in soil can affect a CO2-respiration test? Or, what the difference is in measuring soil respiration for 1-day "CO2-Burst" versus 3 or 7-days? Many of these questions are topics of a series of short, technical memos on the theme of...
New Rapid Lab Test for Soil Stable Aggregates
Woods End Laboratories has announced the release of , a rapid laboratory method for measuring water-stable soil aggregates. The new product was created to help soil labs complete the , which evaluates physical in additon to biological and chemical components of the...