Agricultural Land Classification, Upton series?

Question

can you tell me what grade soils in the Upton series generally have?

Here is the description of the soil profile:

0-25cm: Greyish brown, moderately stony silty clay loam, extremely calcareous.

25-30cm: Light brownish grey, very or extremely stony silty clay loam, and extremely calcareous.

30-40cm: Fragmented chalk

At 40cm: Thinly bedded chalk

Answer 1

This Upton: ? http://www2.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/U/... ?

It is extensive in West Texas and New Mexico, however, being basically lazy, I stopped early on in figuring this out because it meant slogging through a lot of soil surveys or calling a couple of state soil scientists. In other words, I was unable to easily determine either land capability class or prime farmland status of your pedon from your information.

Do you have a specific location in mind? Even just the county and state would help quite a bit, getting you into soildatamart info.  Better yet, append your question with a Latitude-Longitude, or Section-Township-Range-Base Meridian for a typical location of Upton stony silty clay loam, and we here can use websoilsurvey info.

If data for that location is available through the Web, it will be in the soil map unit interpretation tables. I have indicated the 2 sources we would use in conjunction with location information to access these tables.

Alternatively, you can contact your NRCS state soil scientist(http://soils.usda.gov/contact/state_offi... He or she will be pleased to help you determine this. More folks need to be asking these kinds of questions about their soils.  Very few are aware of how easily available this type of information is on the Internet. Thanks for a great question!

Answer 2

Not sure what you are wanting here, Luke. The description you give of the soil profile basically is the grade. Maybe this reference will help you.

http://soils.usda.gov/education/facts/so...