Crop Check
Understand your crop’s nutrient uptake
Crop Check
During the growing phase, it is essential to understand how well your crop absorbs nutrients. Crop Check provides insight into the plant’s actual nutrient uptake, helping you identify deficiencies early. With this information, you can adjust fertilisation in time and prevent problems in growth or development.
What is Crop Check?
Crop Check is a dry matter analysis of oven-dried plant material. By measuring both bound and dissolved nutrients, the analysis shows exactly what the crop has absorbed up to the moment of sampling. This gives a clear picture of nutrient status throughout the growing cycle of arable crops.
Eurofins Agro maintains an extensive database of target values for a wide range of field crops, allowing you to compare your results with established guidelines.
Why nutrient uptake matters
A deficiency in one or more elements can significantly affect crop growth, yield and quality. Plant nutrient uptake is determined by a combination of soil fertility, moisture conditions, weather patterns and interactions between nutrients.
Elements can influence each other:
- Too much of one nutrient may inhibit the uptake of another
- Soil conditions influence availability and mobility
- Weather and growth stage affect how quickly nutrients are transported
Understanding this balance helps maintain strong, resilient crops throughout the growing season.
What Crop Check measures
Crop Check analyses oven-dried plant material to determine total nutrient content. Both dissolved and bound minerals are included, giving a complete representation of what the plant has absorbed. Results are expressed in g/kg, μg/kg, %/kg or mmol/kg dry matter.
This direct measurement of actual uptake allows growers and advisors to evaluate whether fertilisation is effective, if supplementation is needed, or if nutrient availability in the soil is limited.
When to use Crop Check
Crop Check is valuable when you want to:
- Detect early nutrient deficiencies
- Optimise follow-up fertilisation
- Prevent growth delays or yield losses
- Understand interactions between nutrients
- Monitor the effect of weather on nutrient uptake
- Compare fields, varieties or fertilisation strategies
Insight into real nutrient uptake allows timely corrections for healthier, more productive crops.
Parameters analysed in Crop Check
Crop Check measures the concentration of macro- and micronutrients present in the plant’s dry matter at the moment of sampling. These values show how efficiently the crop absorbs nutrients and whether the results align with established guideline values for your specific crop.
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