Trusted by farmers and soil stewards in over 100 countries for fast,
affordable soil microbial biomass testing
Trusted by farmers and soil stewards in over 100 countries for fast,
affordable soil microbial biomass testing
Improving the health of your soil is essential to increasing your output, but how can you tell if you are making progress? Research shows that microbial biomass (fungi and bacteria) is the leading indicator of soil health. Living soil fixes nutrients, improves plant immunity, stores water more efficiently and builds soil structure, therefore, a healthy level of microbes increases productivity while reducing inputs.
microBIOMETER® is a low cost, 20-minute on-site soil test for microbial biomass and fungal to bacterial ratio that allows you to quickly determine the health of your soil using smartphone technology. Frequent retesting will provide you with the data necessary to identify if your soil management practices are working.
Build Your Microbial
Community
Improve Soil
Health
Increase Your Outputs While Reducing Inputs
Testing on field moist soil provides data in real-time allowing for the most accurate results.
Quickly assess how amendments impact soil microbial biomass, ensuring your management practices are effective.
Monitor changes in soil biology, increase carbon storage, and support sustainable farming practices.
$135.00 – $150.00
$90.00
$195.00 – $600.00
Download, Edit & Share Your Data
microBIOMETER® stores test data and locations in a cloud portal. View, edit, and export to Excel for analysis or sharing.
Create a Team Project
Create custom projects with microBIOMETER®, invite team members, and share soil test results. Access and download data with custom fields, dates, and locations.
“microBIOMETER® is a very efficient and time saving tool. It can be used by scientists, farmers, or a gardener in learning the microbial health of their soil. This testing process is also very non-invasive, and thus having a lesser negative environmental impact compared to traditional testing.”
Dr. Anna Paltseva
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
“I really love how clean, how clear the microBIOMETER® test is. What this test brings to the table simplifies the work for microscopists. We need tests that are reliable, that can synergize with other tests and give us the ability to look around a corner we couldn’t look around before.”
Matt Powers
Author, Educator, Citizen Scientist, Entrepreneur
“Understanding soil biology in an ecosystem is crucially important for producers to tune in the practices and steward land. While typically microbial analyses are more cost prohibitive, microBIOMETER® provides an affordable on demand proxy that allows producers to understand the…
Yadi Wang
President, Development of Regenerative Yields Cooperative (or DRY co-op)
“I’ve been farming for over a decade, and I can confidently say that incorporating the microbial testing kit into my compost tea brewing process has been a game-changer. This kit, with its innovative reagents, and ease of use allowed me to delve deep into the microbial ecosystem…
Laura Davis
Organic Certification Assistance Coordinator/Soil Technical Advisor at NOFA/Mass
“The microBIOMETER® acts as a dashboard or gauge that shows where our growers start, where they are during the season and where they can finish out at the end of the season. We use this information to build a database that records year over year results; with the goal of increasing the biology in the soil.”
Mike Batson
Sales Agronomist, Holganix
“microBIOMETER® provided an “in field” test that when conducted well seems to suggest it is a reliable, consistent, replicable, and relatively simple test to evaluate soil biological activity.”
David Purdy
Territory Business Manager at John Deere, and Soil Health Specialist
“We are so grateful for our partnership with microBIOMETER®! They offer a reliable soil testing product which we utilize in our Field Lab Kits. We greatly appreciate that we have a shared goal of making soil testing more accessible all over the world.”
Matt Slaughter
President, Earthfort Labs
“microBIOMETER® tests give anyone the capacity to monitor the health of soils at a reasonable cost per test. The ability to measure microbial communities enables growers to monitor changes in soils as they improve cultivation practices. I recommend microBIOMETER to anyone working to improve soil health.”
Dr. James White
Rutgers University
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