Slakes: Soil Health Test vs Field Prophet Usage & Stats
Unlock the power of soil health assessment with the Soil Health Institute's Slakes app. Easily and accurately measure wet aggregate stability – a key indicator of soil health.
Key Features:
• Open access to a reliable method for soil health assessment
• A simple process for photographing three air-dried soil aggregates before and after a 10-minute water submersion
• Automatic soil area estimation using an advanced pixel thresholding algorithm
• Calculation of a dimensionless aggregate stability index, indicating soil health
• Index values ranging from ~0.1 to 1, with higher values representing greater aggregate stability
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- Free
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Outsmart plant disease! Field Prophet assists in making management decisions about current or impending disease infections in agronomic fields or in turf settings. Models used in the app predict the risk of plant diseases occurring by using statistical models coupled to weather information for your farm fields.
Users can easily input site-specific information about their field into this app, which combines the information with the statistical models and weather to predict risk and thereby guiding the best timing for in-season scouting and treatments to manage tar spot on corn or white mold on soybean.
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- Free
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Slakes: Soil Health Test VS. 
Field ProphetDecember 31, 2024