We wanted to test the effectiveness of the visual soil assessment from the FAO Annual Crops manual and test various methods for assessing soil quality indicators. On two Sava terraces, we determined whether this method detects differences between cultivation methods on two different soil types and if the method describes the actual state of the soil. On twenty sample plots, we did the visual soil assessment three times and compared the average of the three samples with the results of chemical soil analysis. With the visual soil assessment from the FAO Annual Crops Manual, we did not detect neither differences between the methods of cultivation, nor did we detect any differences between the soil types, while the chemical analysis of soil showed statistically significant differences between soil types. For two soil quality indicators, we compared two different determination methods. We compared the soil pH determined with the LUSTER LEAF Rapitest Soil Test Kit and the pH determined by chemical soil analysis. We considered the LUSTER LEAF Rapitest Soil Test Kit as inappropriate. We compared soil texture, determined by the ribbon test and by using the method described in the manual for the visual soil assessment, and detected statistically significant differences between them. In the future, it would be beneficial to develop a model for determining soil quality, which will better detect the differences and processes in the soil.
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