Western Ag Labs

What's in the soil can greatly affect how your crops yield. With Western Ag's PRS™-probe and PRS™-probe Nutrient Forecaster software, Western Ag Labs can generate a crop nutrition plan that will maximize your yield and minimize inputs.

Its All About The Bottom line

Western Ag Labs wants to build a crop nutrition plan that optimizes your farm. Using the technologically advanced Plant Root Simulator (PRS)™-Probe and the PRS™ Nutrient Forecaster software, Western Ag Labs' Field Service Reps can increase profits and minimize inputs for all farmers.

PRS™ Nutrient Forecaster

The PRS™ Nutrient Forecaster is a computer software program that utilizes PRS™ data by integrating the climate and soil conditions of that particular field to determine potential yields. As nutrient, climate, and soil conditions are adjusted with the Forecaster, producers can choose to increase or decrease the applied fertilizer to achieve the maximum economic yield.

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Let our Field Service Reps create a crop nutrition plan that will maximize profits while minimizing inputs. Contact your FSR today!

Frequently Asked Questions

Who else uses the PRS™-probe technology?

Researchers use the PRS™-probe technology frequently. The utility of the PRS™-probes have supported their use worldwide in a number of different research scenarios ranging from measuring nutrient turnover following manure amendments to a surrogate measure of earthworm toxicity in heavy metal-contaminated soil. The utility of the PRS™-probes is well established and has been detailed in over 40-refereed scientific papers and 42 post-graduate theses to date. Listed below are some of the historical uses of the PRS™-probes.

Agriculture - Fertilizer, manure, and compost amendments involving a wide range of annual and perennial crops, as well as pasture systems.
Forestry - LTSP sites, harvesting and site preparation effects, disturbance regimes, interspecific competition, ‘undisturbed’ vs. disturbed sites.
Ecology - Grassland ecosystem studies including: fire and grazing disturbances, and biological control agent effects on plant species richness and diversity.
Environmental - Heavy metal toxicity; salinity; nutrients in spring meltwaters.
Turf Grass - Soluble and slow-release fertilizer amendments.

Some institutions having used the PRS™-probes include:

Agricultural University of Norway
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Alberta Agriculture
Bahauddin Zakariya University (Pakistan)
Canadian Forest Service
Centro de Investigaciones Agronomicas
Colorado State University
Cornell University
Crop and Food Research (New Zealand)
CSIRO
Department of Natural Resources (Australia)
Huazhong Agricultural University
Michigan State University
Montana State University
National Hydrology Research Institute (Canada)
National Soil Research Lab (Ethiopia)
North Carolina State University
Northern Arizona University
Norwegian Crop Research Institute
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Oklahoma State University
Oregon State University
Pennsylvania State University

Potash and Phosphate Institute of Canada
RIVM (Netherlands)
Rutgers University
Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
South Dakota State University
Universidad de Concepcion
Universita di Bologna
University of Alberta
University of Georgia
University of Idaho
University of Kansas
University of Manitoba
University of Nevada
University of Northern British Columbia
University of Puerto Rico (Mayagüez)
University of Quebec
University of Sao Paulo
University of Saskatchewan
University of Tunis II
USDA ARS
USDA FS
Washington State University

and many more... PRS™-probes can be used almost anywhere!

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