Challenge To help farmers making informed decisions for the optimal use of amounts and types of fertilisers, CSBP offers a soil analysis service, NUlogic. Soil sample testing kits include a bag and a paper form which is sent to the laboratory. After the kit arrived at CSBP’s lab, staff had to manually enter the form’s details into their system, omitting provided GPS data due to the risk of trans- cription errors. As farmers don’t always have enough time, sometimes kits arrived without all relevant information or even without a form or a means of identifying the customer. CSBP searched for a solution to decrease processing effort required at the lab, and improve the level of information available in a shorter period of time. S

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