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Register for your two free soil DNA tests

One of 150 grant-funded places. Tell us where the farm is and which two paddocks you want tested, and we will confirm your place and post the sampling kit. It takes about three minutes.

  1. 1. Register
  2. 2. Kit in the post
  3. 3. Sample and log
  4. 4. Report by email

Everything you tell us here is kept confidential and handled under our privacy policy, in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

Where the farm is

Funded places cover 55 local government areas across Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales, on five soil types. We check the soil type from your property location, so you do not need to know it.

Choose your council, or select the last option.
We need an address to post the sampling kit to.
Please give the suburb or nearest town.
Choose a state or territory.
Used to check the soil type and to post the kit. The precise location is removed before any result goes to the Commonwealth. Australian postcodes are four digits.
If you know the soil on the two paddocks, pick it. If not, we check it against the national soil map from your address. Pick your soil type, or “Not sure”.

What the soil types look like

Calcarosol. Calcarosols are pale brown, grey or reddish soils containing visible lime, often as soft white nodules or hard fragments, and range from sandy loams to heavy clays. Their alkaline, calcareous profile can tie up phosphorus and micronutrients such as zinc, iron and manganese, while lighter types may have limited water-holding capacity.

Chromosol. Chromosols have a loamy or sandy-loam topsoil over a clear clay subsoil, with red, brown, yellow or grey colours depending on drainage and parent material. They are generally non-sodic and moderately fertile, but can suffer from surface acidification, compaction and declining structure if managed intensively.

Ferrosol. Ferrosols are usually deep red, brown or yellow soils, with a friable, well-structured clay texture that is often easy to work. They can be productive but are commonly acidic and may need lime, phosphorus and careful nutrient management.

Sodosol. Sodosols typically have a lighter sandy or loamy surface over a dense clay subsoil, often with grey, brown, yellow or red colouring. Their sodic subsoil disperses when wet, causing poor infiltration, waterlogging, hard setting, restricted roots and erosion risk.

Vertosol. Vertosols are usually dark grey, brown or black heavy clays that crack deeply when dry and swell strongly after rain. They can hold substantial water and nutrients, but are hard to cultivate when wet, hard when dry, prone to compaction, and require careful timing of traffic and planting.

Farming type
What kind of farming do you do?
Choose one.
The two paddocks

The test compares one paddock that performs with one that does not, on the same farm. The difference between them is what tells you the cause. Both samples are funded.

Name the paddock so we can label the kit.
Name the paddock so we can label the kit.
This is read by the person writing your report. The more specific you are, the more useful the recommendations.
What is grown on these paddocks? tick all that apply
Tick at least one.
Are potatoes grown anywhere on this property?
Choose yes or no.
Your fertiliser program on these paddocks

About the two paddocks above, not the whole farm. Rough answers are fine, and every question has a “Not sure” option. It takes about a minute.

What have you applied to these paddocks in the last three seasons? tick all that apply
Tick at least one, or “Nothing applied”.
What do you spend on fertiliser per hectare in a normal year? optional
How could you apply a liquid product on these paddocks? tick all that apply
Tick at least one, or “Not sure”.
Have you used manure, compost or a biological product before?
Please pick one.
Where do these figures come from?
Please pick one.
How the samples get taken

We post you the kit with simple instructions. You take the samples yourself using the CoreLog app, which records where each one came from. Each sample takes under 30 minutes, and the kit comes with a prepaid return satchel.

How we reach you
Please tell us your name.
Your report is emailed here. We need a working email address to send the report to.
Please give us a number in case there is a problem with a sample.
Before you send this

We reply to every registration. If your farm turns out to be outside the funded areas or off the target soil types, we will tell you and you are under no obligation.

Prefer to talk to a person first? Email [email protected]. Funded by the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund through the Drought Resilience Innovation Challenges pilot, delivered with MADE.