What is the relation between soil texture and its electric conductivity?
Farmers practicing precision agriculture can now collect more detailed information about the spatial characteristics of their farming operations than ever before. In addition to yield, boundary and field attribute maps, new electronic, mechanical, and chemical sensors are being developed to measure and map many soil and plant properties. Soil EC is one of the simplest, least expensive soil measurements available to precision farmers today. Soil EC measurement can provide more measurements in a shorter amount of time than traditional grid soil sampling. Soil texture is a soil property used to describe the relative proportion of different grain sizes of mineral particles in a soil. Particles are grouped according to their size into what are called soil separates. These separates are typically named clay, silt, and sand. Soil texture classification is based on the fractions of soil separates present in a soil. The soil texture triangle is a diagram often used to figure out soil textures S
