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Little River, TX | Basic is Houston Black Clay,
More or less generic for the Central Texas Blacklands
Basque Clay Loam is an alluvial clay with some silt & a little sand. In River Bottom flood plain.
This is supposedly our most productive. Probably because it has fewer difficult traits.
Freo Clay Loam is Basque Clay that is more subject to flooding, so has a few differences. This is also a high shrink soil.
Trinity Clay this is also an alluvial clay, further from the river so is a higher percentage of clay.
The Basque and Freo have a 40 CEC, while the Trinity clay is a classic vertical cracking high shrink clay & has a 50 CEC.
Not all the Texas Blacklands are high shrink, nor have a vertical cracking character, or outlandishly high CEC.
Nor are they all a high pH high calcium, Calcareous soil. I can assure you the soils here have not been shorted when it comes to challenges. If this were not so I would have depended on being spoon fed by our Academic Friends, and make a study of this soil. | |
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What soil types do you farm?
