Soil Health,
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Make informed management decisions with SHAP, a soil health assessment that adapts to your needs.
SHAP: Soil Health Assessment & Plan
In-Field
In-Office
Match SHAP to your needs
Assess
Benchmark
5 Key Soil Health Indicators
- 5 key indicators
- Soil Organic Matter
- Active Carbon
- Soil Respiration
- Potentially Mineralizable Nitrogen
- Aggregate Stability
- Compare test results against an extensive Ontario soil database grouped by soil texture
Improve
Find Potential for Improvement
- In-field and web-based tools identify major soil degradation threats
- Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure
- Soil Surface Quality
- Water Erosion Risk Map
- Compaction Risk Calculator
- Tillage Disturbance
- Living Roots Index
Adapt
Take a Flexible approach
- SHAP enables a quick glance or a deep dive into the state of your soil
- Lab Soil Analysis Only
- Lab + In-Field Assessments
- Lab + In-Field + Web Based Assessments
- Lab + In-Field + Web Based Assessments + Management Plan
Interpret
Use the SHAP Score Calculator to compare your test results to a database of results from similar Ontario soils. Use this benchmark to identify trends over time with future sampling, or hone in on limiting soil functions by comparing results from good and poor areas of a field.
Plan
The Soil Health Management Plan is the key to providing value from the results of SHAP. A good plan integrates knowledge of the current management, objectives, and limitations with the results of the assessments conducted through SHAP. It recommends specific management actions that can be taken to address any concerns identified over the course of the assessment and includes enough detail in the considerations to ensure successful implementation.
Key Links
Many researchers, agronomists, and farmers contributed to building SHAP, and they continue to expand and improve it.
SHAP is currently being used to evaluate soil health by the following initiatives:
SHAP Ground-Truthing Project
Free SHAP Laboratory Analysis Available – Province Wide
Soil Health Testing Program
Free SHAP Laboratory Analysis Available – Niagara, York, Durham Regions Only [2024]
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