The first soil - testing laboratory in the State of Texas is celebrating over 70 years of service to growers. Texas Plant & Soil Lab of Edinburg is internationally recognized as a leader in practical agricultural consulting. The Lab furnishes soil, water, and plant analyses to farmers, nurseries, and homeowners. Recently named by several national publications such as ACRES U.S.A. for general agriculture and then for home gardeners and landscape professionals by the upscale NEW YORK publication TOWN & COUNTRY and AMERICAN HANDYMAN, a Readers Digest publication which referred to our uniquely accurate method of soil testing with easy-to-understand interpretations and recommendations. We were also noted as leaders in soil fertility and plant nutrition for most crops as well as grasses used as turf on athletic fields, golf courses and especially forage crops.

Senior Consultant Conan Wood, a Valley native with 50 years of lab and 12 years farming experience leads TPSL's staff with over 220 combined years of servicing agriculture. We offer full service programs of field sampling, lab analysis, computer illustrations with detailed interpretations and recommendations of needed nutrients and practices for more profitable productions. Noel Garcia - Vice President/Chemist ; Richard D Ramirez - Lab Supervisor / webmaster ; Diana Nash - Chief Chemist ; Sergio Gonzalez - Senior Technician-Field Supervisor ; Norma Soto - General Manager are highly capable members of the team serving growers.

With the cost-price squeeze on growers, the Lab's services are aiding many progressive growers to improve profits by supplying the right nutrients at the right time and in the right amounts; irrigation systems make this very practical as does foliar applications. This is especially cost effective as a season of lab services cost only one or two units of yields per acre, such as cartons of fruit or 200 lb/ac of watermelons, where yields and quality are improved by earlier harvests. The teamwork of the growers, Texas Plant & Soil Lab, consultants and suppliers can get the most out of soil and plant fertility with minimum use of water from limited and/or poor quality water.

 

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