Good Morning Everyone,
Long time reader, first time writer here. I currently work at an agricultural lab that tests soils, water and plant tissues (mainly Corn/Soy Beans) in the US. My question is, are there any others in this group that do this, either as their main focus or on a contract basis?
We have the Tracer 5i and 5g and I am the sole operator. I started last year, being unfamiliar with XRF or agricultural testing as a whole, so have delved deep into publications, XRF Guru guides and other materials to educate myself. We use a Bruker provided Plant Tissue calibration and a custom Soil calibration I created on my own using EasyCal and I would love to be able to exchange PDZs to verify the accuracy of my calibrations with similar users.
We use ICP-OES in house, but we do not do the full digest, rather an abbreviated version that I cannot use for standard creation/validation.
If it would help, I do have NIST standards for Soils and Plants (2710a/2711a/1646a and 1515/1573a) which have Certified concentrations that I have used to create my calibrations.
I understand most in this group work in archaeology/conservation, so just putting this out there.
Thank you all in advance,
Chris