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| Hello Matt,
I use Brady and Weil's Nature and Properties of Soil as the text for several of my soil science classes. It is by far the best comprehensive English language soil science text on the market today IMHO but I may be a little biased since I did my masters degree with Ray Weil and have helped with editing some chapters in recent editions.
The 14th edition (the newest edition) is the most up to date with good information about GIS, remote sensing and other recent developments in soil science technology but any of the other editions that Ray Weil worked on (11th-13th) are good and much cheaper.
The cheapest book that still contains good science is a little book titled "Soil Science Simplified".
One should keep in mind that these books are both soil science texts (with very different levels of detail) but limited applied agronomy information.
Building Soil for Better Crops by Fred Magdoff and Harold van Es (2 rock solid soil scientists) is an excellent book on soil management with an ecological focus that is entirely available on-line:
http://www.sare.org/publications/soils.htm
Joel
WIU Agriculture
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