How can the variability in my soil sample results be explained?
(from Dr. Terry Niblack , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Dr. Pat Donald, University of Missouri) Soybean cyst nematodes (SCN) are not evenly distributed in a field. For example, in a single field with an average number of eggs of 50,000, the actual number of eggs in any one section of that field might be anywhere from 0 to 100,000. Due to this natural variability in the distribution of SCN, it is very important to take a sample. Some of the questions we’ve received about this variability in SCN egg counts are given below, along with the answers.
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