Open methods

Tools that show their work.

Build credible field trials, organize laboratory results, compare changes over time, and reuse analysis methods without hiding assumptions.

Live prototype

Explore USDA soil information in OpenSoil Lab

Find soil survey areas, inspect map units, components, and horizons, compare two places, and explore how mapped soils may absorb or shed rainwater. Results retain their USDA source, retrieval time, and generated query.

Launch the lab
Live MVP

Lab Report Importer

Privately retain a PDF or CSV, conservatively extract supported CSV values, and require source verification before creating a soil test.

Import a report →
Live

Soil Test Explorer

Explore shared NPK and micronutrients on a privacy-aware world map with filters for date, region, lab, method, unit, and nutrient.

Open the world map →
Live MVP

Field Trial Builder

Save a question, baseline, control, treatments, replication, measurements, costs, risks, and generated plots.

Build a trial →
Live MVP

Soil Test Interpreter

Normalize documented unit relationships, audit missing context, and compare matching methods and depths.

Interpret saved tests →
Live MVP

Field Timeline

Connect baseline, intervention, observations, measurements, costs, harvest, decisions, methods, and uncertainty.

Open the workspace →

Live account tool

Build a worldwide soil picture, one transparent test at a time

Signed-in members can contribute laboratory measurements while keeping the sampling context and original units attached. Private, anonymized, and named sharing options let contributors decide how each record participates.

NPK and micronutrients

Record N, P, K, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, iron, manganese, zinc, copper, boron, molybdenum, chloride, nickel, and sodium.

Global GPS

Use browser location or coordinates anywhere on Earth. Exact GPS is isolated from the public location record.

Original context

Preserve sample date, laboratory, method, sampling depth, region, units, and private notes.

Deliberate privacy

Keep a test private, share it without your name, or publish with your display name; hide, approximate, or publish its GPS.

Field Trial Builder

Turn a management question into a measurable trial

The builder prompts for decisions that are easy to miss in an informal comparison and keeps a readable plan alongside technical detail.

Start practical

Not every farm trial can meet publication standards. A clearly documented comparison can still be valuable when its limitations are visible.

  1. 1

    Question and hypothesis

    State the decision you want to improve and the response you expect.

  2. 2

    Baseline and field context

    Record soil, crop, climate, irrigation, management history, and existing variability.

  3. 3

    Control, treatments, and replication

    Define what changes, what stays the same, plot layout, rates, and repeated comparisons.

  4. 4

    Measurements and sampling dates

    Choose outcomes, units, methods, locations, depths, instruments, and timing before results are known.

  5. 5

    Costs, risks, and reporting

    Track economics, unintended effects, privacy, licenses, and how inconclusive results will be shared.

Soil Test Interpreter

Explain the report without separating it from the method

A laboratory value is not universal. Extraction method, sampling depth, units, crop, climate, salinity, and field history affect interpretation.

What the importer preserves

Source

Original PDF or CSV and laboratory name

Method

Extractant, instrument, and reported basis

Sampling

Date, depth, location scheme, and composite count

Units

Original units plus documented conversions

What an explanation distinguishes

Measured
The value reported by the laboratory
Calculated
A transparent formula applied to source values
Interpretation
A context-dependent explanation, not a measurement
AI assistance
A labeled draft with citations and uncertainty

Personal soil record

A field history that does not disappear between seasons

Tests become more useful when they remain connected to treatments, weather, crop response, costs, and later measurements.

Pre-season · Baseline

Soil test and infiltration measurement

Attach source files, sampling locations, depth, methods, and field conditions.

Planting · Intervention

Treatment applied

Record material, analysis, rate, timing, equipment, plot, weather, and cost.

In-season · Observation

Crop response and tissue test

Separate photographs and observations from measured values and interpretations.

Harvest and following season

Yield, economics, persistence

Ask whether the response repeated, persisted, reduced inputs, or created unintended effects.

Open methods

Reusable workflows with versions

Protocol

Basic ring infiltration

Field procedure, soil-moisture cautions, replications, units, and known limitations.

Example · v0.1

Tool registry live

Versioned analysis contracts

Register runtimes, entrypoints, input and output schemas, configuration, documentation, limitations, source, and releases without executing contributed code.

Live MVP · Unreviewed contributions labeled

Calculator live

Application-rate conversion

Convert a selected rate and treated area into total material with every factor and intermediate result visible.

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