Soil types!

JayinNY · Mar 15, 2012

What kind of ground are you on were you live? Were I am in eastern NY, it's the really stickey wet clay, I hate this stuff. 15 miles away it goes to yellow sand. It takes us 2-3 weeks to dry out in the spring. If it's wet like last year, forget it.

tjdub · Mar 15, 2012

I've got sand, clay, and a few types in between. Mostly gumbo though, unfortunately. As soon as the gumbo's finally dry enough to work, it's too dry to work.

As one of my neighbors says: "Don't call it clay. It's not clay. Clay is GOOD ground!".

jackinok · Mar 15, 2012

sandy loam, to solid sandrock! dry as a bone most of the time.LOL I dont even think I'm going to attempt working it this spring unless we get some rain next week.

rrlund · Mar 15, 2012

Soil's named for the county. Montcalm sandy loam.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 15, 2012

Mostly Honyoe silt loam and Lansing silt loam.

641Dave · Mar 15, 2012

Wilson fine sandy loam

Kirk Grau · Mar 15, 2012

Sounds like our clay here in South Central PA.

I usually say there is an hour between too muddy to work and too hard and dry to work.

Kirk

NY 986 · Mar 15, 2012

Arkport, Ontario, Schoharie, Appleton, Collamer, Odessa. Sand to loam to clay. I'd gladly take 1000 acres or more of Ontario or Honeoye soil if I could. Lima, Palmyra, Phelps, Genesee would be nice, too.

elmersooner · Mar 15, 2012

southwest ok--sandy loam to mostly sand with a little loam. decent riverbottom soil.

Billy NY · Mar 15, 2012

The fields I have worked in the area surrounding where I live seem to be a composite mixture of sand, gravel, clay so its kind of loamy. You have the wet areas within low or poorly drained places that can be hard to deal with, most farmers will skip those areas or try and drain them better. We also have shale outcrops, that material will scour your plow, and things grow almost as well in it, 'cept near the top where nothing is broken up.
Near the marsh areas, there is a gray clay that we called gumbo, I don't like plowing that deep or like to remember where it is and try to leave it in place and just turn the top soil. Our other place 10+ miles east of Amsterdam has fine sand/topsoils. on top, then some layers of clay, then black shale or bed rock. Shale can be a few feet down or 8'-9' down.

This is deep loamy topsoil, this hill was an ag field at one time behind our old barns, but this patch was further built up as a garden, most of our top soils look like that, maybe not as deep.

Sand, gravel, clay, kind of loamy, it does hold moisture and can pack or get hard when real dry, also drains well in most areas:

Most of what is under the top soil is like this material, gravel with some clay, fine to build on, lots of round rock.

old · Mar 15, 2012

The area of Missouri that I am in the Lake of the Ozarks is 3 things. ROCKS black clay or red clay. Many people call the black clay here top soil but it is not true top soil

larry@stinescorner · Mar 15, 2012

here in central nj,we have red shale,in pa the soil is limestone shale,which drains very well,but can get dry fast too

Anonymous-0 · Mar 15, 2012

Howard silt loam gravel. Madison county NY.

Rob in Ore · Mar 15, 2012

Two soil.
You got about two weeks between too wet and too dry. When it"s too wet you need a spare shovel to scrape off your digging shovel. When it"s too dry you need a pick.
Also known as Willakenzie. Supposed to be good for grapes but I"m a beer drinker of course.

LJD · Mar 15, 2012

Thick mucky/rocky soil in my part of NY where I live full-time and at my places in northern Michigan and NY Adirondacks - pure sand. Crops grow well in the muck here even though it's rarely more then a foot deep before you hit hard-pan.

paul · Mar 15, 2012

Yellow wet clay about 120 feet deep, with some alkili peat ground, and one 5 acre plot of sandy knoll. Most all is rolling hills.

--->Paul

mazemeister · Mar 15, 2012

pretty spoiled here (long island). Bridgehampton Silt Loam. essentially free of rocks, and coarse sand below about 3 ft deep.

Pair-a-dice farm · Mar 15, 2012

It depends where you are on the farm. I have everything from glade limestone rock to sand. I have 1 field that has spots of sandy loam, sand, buckshot and gray clay. We also have alot of red clay and red clay gravel. Ozark foothills.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 15, 2012

On my farm in SE Ok I have black clay. They call it dinner ground. Its too wet before diner and too dry after dinner. You have to plow during your dinner hour. Roy

JayinNY · Mar 15, 2012

Nice pictures of some good looking equipment.

Hay hay hay · Mar 15, 2012

This is grass land. Maury and McAfee silt loam.
Good deep soil but too sloped in most areas for horizon to horizon row cropping. Grows mighty good tobacco....or used to.

Lots of limestone, good for growing sound horses.

Fred Martin · Mar 15, 2012

I had a fellow out here one time with a trencher to dig a water line and he socked her in the ground and started digging and pretty soon he raised her back up and adjusted the clutch and tried again and up he came and he looked down in the trench and said I thought I was up against a rock and adjusted the clutch again. He told me he'd dug all over southern Ohio and this was the hardest ground he had ever seen.
My cousin came around (farmer) and he said that you could plant an acre of what Mommy has that we all like so well and it wouldn't raise one of those things that Viagra is supposed to. ohfred

Stephen Newell · Mar 15, 2012

I'm near Dallas. The city of Dallas has black gumbo. I'm east of Dallas and the soil is suggar sand.

Bret4207 · Mar 16, 2012

Heavy clays with lighter ground on the hills here in the St Lawrence Valley. And Like JayNY, go 15 miles further inland and it's sand.

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