Martine Vernooij

By Christy van Beek - Director of the SoilCares Foundation Many African countries aspire to increase productivity in a sustainable way. It is well known that managing soil fertility is essential to...

Crop production on smallholder agricultural land must increase considerably if the growing world population is to be fed. To achieve this, affordable soil testing methods, fertilizer recommendation...

Agriculture is considered as the backbone of Ethiopian economy. The government promotes rural development through policies that enhance intensive and commercially oriented agriculture. Soil quality...

by Dr Christy van BeekDirector SoilCares Foundation AgroCares is often confronted with questions about the quality of the results of our soil testing technology. But what is quality? Is it accuracy...

Every Wednesday a member of AgroCares’ team of experts will answer one of the frequently asked questions that we get from our clients in an easy-to-understand manner in a short Whiteboard Wednesday...

by Dr Peter van ErpDirector SoilCares-Research Testing soil using sensor technology makes farmers and advisors take more soil samples from a field then they were used to, because of lower costs and...

by Dr Peter van Erp Director SoilCares-Research AgroCares is often confronted with questions from farmers and advisors on how to optimize their lime application. It seems that soil or crop specific...

Read here more about what the AgroCares Scanner Fertilizer Recommendations are composed of and how they are calculated. The fertilizer recommendations provided by the AgroCares Scanner are determin...

AgroCares proposes products and services to analyse soil samples faster, easier and cheaper without any chemical reagents, based on sensor technology. The purpose of this article is to illustrate h...

The British are used to saying “The proof of the pudding is in the eating”. For AgroCares, the proof is in the crop yield, as our ultimate goal is to increase yields at a minimum of costs. The bene...