Testing Water Infiltration and Compaction at a SoCal Vineyard

Hello everyone. We are in Southern California in a vineyard.

We're here to assess soil results. After one year of applying soil primer and managing nutrition differently.

We have here a water infiltration test to understand how long it would take for an inch of water to be infiltrated. Here we're using the middle of the row. This is the third time we've done it. We want to understand where that point of saturation is and how long it.

Would take after rainfall event.

We also have here a trench.

Here we're trying to assess the compaction.

So we will do three measurements.

One here under the wheel, tractor wheel in the middle of the road and also under the trip line.

Here we have a 2225 inch deep.

Trench where we're going to assess where.

The compaction layer begins and also how.

Wide or deep that compaction layer goes.

And where does it end and similar.

In the other two spots. And we have great results from Haney showing progress where overall soil health has been improved.

Double as a matter of fact increased in water soluble carbon, organic nitrogen, better ratios and overall double the soil respiration. So we're doing progress here and hopefully we'll get to the point where biology starts working for these vines. And thank you for listening, hope you have enjoyed it.