Gathering Information

 

Careful preparation before using this diagnostic guide will improve your chances of accurately determining the cause or causes of the abnormality you are observing. Activities such as noting landscape features, compiling a field history, recording weather information, and determining soil characteristics can be very helpful in your diagnosis. You may want to sketch the field and mark the locations of the observed abnormality in relation to landscape features. If possible, record information about neighboring fields as well as the field in question.