AGRETO Soil Compaction meter

The AGRETO Soil Compaction Tester is a precision instrument designed for assessing soil health and structure on agricultural land. This robust and practical tool is essential for farmers and consultants who need to identify, analyze, and address soil compaction issues, which are crucial for improving crop yields and overall soil quality.

Key Features and Benefits:

Robust Construction: The penetrometer, including the handle and probe, is entirely made of stainless steel, ensuring durability and longevity.

Efficient and Fast Measurement: The device swiftly displays the measured value during insertion into the soil. It has an analogue display with a measurement range of 0 to 70.

Practical Design: The AGRETO Soil Compaction Tester is maintenance-free and doesn’t require batteries, making it a convenient tool for field use.

Safety and Reliability: The display is safely integrated within a stainless steel housing, and the product comes with a 5-year warranty.

Versatility: It includes two probe tips and two handles to accommodate different soil types and conditions. The probe tips are designed for both light and heavy soils.

Ease of Use: The device is user-friendly, with an analogue display that shows soil compaction during insertion. The measurement scale on the soil compaction tester indicates the depth of the compacted soil layer.

Diagnostic Tool: It’s an indispensable tool for diagnosing the extent and depth of subsurface compaction, which is a common but often undetected problem in agricultural fields.

Accurate Information: Provides objective measurements from different soil horizons, offering valuable insights for future soil improvement and cultivation strategies.

Application and Use:

The penetrometer is used to measure the mechanical resistance in the ground, mimicking plant root penetration. It’s particularly effective in identifying zones of compacted soil and providing a quantifiable measure of the compaction intensity. This data is crucial for making informed decisions regarding soil management and crop cultivation.

The AGRETO soil compaction tester allows you to “feel” what the roots experience.? ?Is there a hard plough layer?? It is made from stainless steel (including the handles) and is practical, accurate, easy to use and guaranteed for 5 years. The probe is 750 mm long and marked at 75 mm intervals. The pressure gauge uses a traffic light scale (Green, amber, red ) with two scales in order to be used with both the 19 mm and the 13 mm tip. The smaller tip is most commonly used for unworked soils. Most roots are not able to penetrate soil which has a compaction reading of more than 250 pounds per square inch (approx. 1800 kPa). Inadequate root growth results in sub optimal uptake of the available nutrients and poor growth.