Soil and Agriculture.
Optimized Soil Health Management.
MANTECH’s automated multi-parameter analysis empowers laboratories worldwide with the precise soil health insights needed to optimize crop fertilization and reduce nutrient runoff.
Soil Samples Piling Up?
Soil testing plays an important role in maintaining soil fertility, improving crop production, and supporting long term soil health and biodiversity. Today’s producers face pressure to improve productivity while preserving soil quality; however, monitoring soil health can be a challenge when laboratories are managing high sample volumes and time-consuming analysis procedures. Factors such as lab analysis costs, lab accessibility, and wait times can limit how often soil is tested.
Benefit From MANTECH Solutions
Reliable, repeatable data is critical for farming decisions, yet laboratories are often overwhelmed by thousands of samples and limited bench space. MANTECH’s highly configurable soil analyzers eliminate the human error associated with manual handling and repetitive steps. This enables laboratories to save space and lower costs while performing multi-parameter analysis for soil pH and conductivity, alongside irrigation water testing for nitrate, chloride, and neutralization potential.
The intuitive MANTECH Pro software supports this process with features such as automated quality control, customizable reporting, and more. Our Jet Rinse prevents cross-contamination by dislodging solid particles between runs, ensuring data integrity across high-volume batches. Together, these capabilities empower farmers and laboratories with the reliable data needed to optimize resources and manage soil health more efficiently.
MANTECH Solutions
Soil & Agriculture
Automated Environmental Titration and Multi-Parameter (MT Series) Analyzer
Is Your Equipment Limiting Your Soil Analysis Workflow?
Whether you are supporting farmers with nutrient management or conducting university research, you deal with diverse sample containers, time-sensitive shaking requirements, and the constant risk of cross-contamination. If your current system can’t adapt to your specific racks or requires manual transfers, you aren’t just losing time, you’re risking the consistency of your results.
Flexible, High-Capacity Automation for Soil Health
Unlike rigid water-testing platforms, the MT Series is fully configurable to the high-throughput demands of agricultural science. By automating complex steps like SMP/Sikora buffer addition, variable stirring, heating, and sample shaking, our systems overcome traditional throughput barriers. This, its multi-channel capability, and multi-parameter analysis for soil pH and conductivity(EC), allows laboratories to analyze more samples in less time, ensuring faster and more reliable reporting for farmers.
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How do the MT Series systems prevent cross-contamination between samples?
The MT series prevents cross-contamination with IntelliRinse™ techology. IntelliRinse™ is beneficial because it uses real-time measurement to provide confirmation that your probes are 100% clean, eliminating chances of cross-contamination. Active IntelliRinse™ systems allows users to set user-defined values (e.g. rinse to a specific conductivity value) or to adjust the rinse intensity based on previous sample concentrations before moving to the next sample. This is beneficial as it improves the rinsing of probes/electrodes to ensure that cross-contamination does not occur even with particularly dirty or high-strength samples. There is also the option to have the final value measured during rinsing shown in a column on the results report, for a visual confirmation directly with sample results.
What is the minimum total liquid volume that can be measured for pH, conductivity and alkalinity with the MT Systems?
When using 50mL sample tubes, the minimum total volume can be as small as 6 ml using the TitraPro4 pH electrode and the MANTECH 5mm conductivity probe. This is due to the lower immersion depth of these electrodes and precise autosampler coordinate specifications. When using 125mL sample cups, the minimum total volume can be as small as 15mL.
What is the time of analysis per parameter and for multi-parameter analysis?
The timing for analysis of different parameters depends on several different factors, like the concentration of the sample and the equipment used.
Another factor is the total available sample volume in the vessel on the AutoMax Autosampler bed. With some combinations of parameters, larger sample volume allows for simultaneous measurements, resulting in faster total analysis time than sequential measurement. A larger sample volume may require a larger sample cup, which decreases capacity on the same model Autosampler. For example, an AM401 can accommodate 112x50ml tubes, or 62x125ml cups. In some, the cases the same set of parameters can be analyzed in 2-5 minutes faster when using the 125ml cups vs 50ml tubes.
It is important to understand your requirements in terms of capacity and throughput speed, total batch capacity required and/or daily sample loads and if overnight, unattended analyses will be applicable.
Individual Parameters
| Parameter | Average Time of Analysis (Minutes) per Sample |
| pH | 1 – 3 |
| ISE by Direct Measure | 1 – 5 depending on sample concentration |
| Titrations (Alkalinity, Acidity, Hardness) | 2 – 5 depending on sample concentration, injection rates and stability control in the titration method. |
| Conductivity | 1 – 2 |
| Colour | 2 – 3 |
| Turbidity | 2 – 3 |
Combined Parameters
MT10 & MT30 Models
| Parameters | Estimated Time of Analysis (Minutes) per Sample* | |
| 50mL Tubes | 125mL Cups | |
| pH-Alkalinity | 3 – 4 | |
| Conductivity-pH-Alkalinity | 3 – 4 | |
| Conductivity-pH-Turbidity | 4 – 7 | 3 – 4 |
| Conductivity-pH-Turbidity-Colour
(only MT30 for these suit of parameters) |
6 – 9 | 3 – 5 |
MT100 Model
| Parameters | Estimated Time of Analysis (incl. TitraSip & RapidAlk) | |
| 50mL Tubes | 125mL Cups | |
| Conductivity-pH-Alkalinity | 3 – 5 | 3 – 5 |
| Conductivity-pH-Alkalinity-Fluoride | 7 – 10 with single TitraSip or 3 – 5 with RapidDuo configuration. | |
| Conductivity-pH-Alkalinity-Turbidity | 7 – 10 | 6 – 8 |
| Conductivity-pH-Alkalinity-Colour | 4 – 6 | 4 – 6 |
| Conductivity-pH-Alkalinity-Turbidity-Colour | 8 – 11 | 4 – 6 |
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Visit MANTECH in booth 908 at Pittcon 2027 in Pittsburgh from April 26 - 28 to see our multiparameter environmental analyzers on display.