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Beds near the surface can be affected by soil creep and folded as shown here with the backwards S kind of shape seen
The Soil Association has teamed up with Yeo Valley to offer a series of ‘Organic Awareness’ days at their idyllic headquarters near Bristol.
Anyone involved in organic can attend - from buyers, developers, marketers, and technical staff, to members of the communications and press teams. Experts from the Soil Association and Yeo Valley share up-to-date knowledge on what sets organic products apart, while an afternoon farm tour will provide delegates with a valuable insight into organic farming in practice. Not to be missed.
To book a place or for more info contact erose@soilassociation.org
Soil, Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton, 7/6/2012, Copyright 616 Photography.co.uk, AlternativeVision.co.uk
A representative soil profile of the Bonneau series.
Depth Class: Very deep
Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained
Internal Free Water Occurrence: Deep, common
Flooding Frequency and Duration: None
Ponding Frequency and Duration: None
Index Surface Runoff: Negligible to medium
Permeability: Moderate
Shrink-swell potential: Low
Landscape: Lower, middle, and upper coastal plain
Landform: Marine terraces, uplands
Hillslope Profile Position: Summits, shoulders, backslopes
Geomorphic Component: Interfluves, side slopes
Parent Material: Marine deposits, fluviomarine deposits
Slope: 0 to 12 percent
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Arenic Paleudults
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Thickness of the sandy surface and subsurface layers: 20 to 40 inches
Depth to the top of the Argillic: 20 to 40 inches
Depth to the base of the Argillic horizon: 60 to 80 inches or more
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 80 inches
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 40 to 60 inches, December to March
Rock Fragment Content: 0 to 15 percent, by volume, throughout
Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to slightly acid in the A and E horizons, except where limed and extremely acid to moderately acid in the B horizon
Other features: Content of silt in the particle-size control section is less than 30 percent. Some pedons have less than 5 percent plinthite nodules in the lower part of the B horizon.
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Crops
Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--growing corn, soybeans, small grain, pasture grasses, and tobacco. Where wooded--mixed hardwood and pine, including longleaf and loblolly pine, white, red, turkey, and post oak, dogwood, and hickory.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Coastal Plain of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia
Extent: Moderate
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BONNEAU.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Soil profile: A representative soil profile of the Chalone series. (Soil Survey of Pinnacles National Monument, California; by Ken Oster, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Chalone series consists of moderately deep to bedrock, well drained soils that formed in residuum weathered from acidic volcanic breccia. The Chalone soils are on backslopes of hills. Slopes range from 35 to 70 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 17 inches (432 millimeters) and the mean annual air temperature is about 61 degrees F (16 degrees C).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haploxerepts
Depth to bedrock: 20 to 40 inches (50 to 100 centimeters).
Mean annual soil temperature: 60 to 63 degrees F (16 to 17 degrees C).
Soil moisture control section: dry in all parts from about June 15 to November 15 (150 days), and moist in all parts from about January 15 to May 1 (105 days).
Particle size control section: 5 to 25 percent clay, 35 to 80 percent gravel.
USE AND VEGETATION: This soil is used for watershed, wildlife habitat and recreation. Vegetation is mixed chaparral.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: San Benito and Monterey Counties, California in MLRA 15 -- Central California Coast Range. These soils are of small extent. Source of name from North Chalone Peak and Chalone Creek. This series was established based on limited acreage observed within the National Park Service Pinnacles National Monument boundary.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/california/CA7...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CHALONE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Soil Stabilisation being carried out on site at Warrington. Image shows T R Stabilisation mixing lime on site.
Soil profile: A representative soil profile of the Norge series. (Soil Survey of Noble County, Oklahoma: by Gregory F. Scott, Troy L. Collier, Jim E. Henley, R. Dwaine Gelnar, and Karen B. Stevenson, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Norge series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately slowly permeable upland soils that formed in loamy alluvium of Pleistocene age. These nearly level to sloping soils occur on flats and upper side slopes of upland terraces. Slopes range from 0 to 8 percent. Mean annual temperature is 16.1 degrees C (61 degrees F), and mean annual precipitation is 864 mm (34 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Udic Paleustolls
Soil Moisture: Udic Ustic soil moisture regime
Solum thickness: more than 152 cm (60 in)
Thickness of mollic epipedon: is 30 to 41 cm (11 to 16 in)
Depth to secondary carbonates: is more than 102 (40 in)
Depth to argillic horizon: 45 to 105 cm (18 to 41 in)
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major uses: cultivated small grains, grain sorghums, cotton, and alfalfa are the principal crops. Some areas are used for tame pasture or rangeland. Native vegetation: consists of mid and tall grasses.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/oklahoma/OK103...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/N/NORGE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Have to wait for some better weather when I'm out, I need the bright sunlight for some decent photos.
The different colours of sand are becoming combined after the excavator has passed over them. (19039a)
Flatbread Society is a public artwork in Oslo, Norway taking the form of a Bakehouse, a cultivated grain field & public programming. Initiated by the Futurefarmers, the project invovles a growing constellation of farmers, oven builders, astronomers, artists, soil scientists and bakers aligned through a common interest in the long and complex relation we have to grain.
I spent most of June helping out with the project while living and sailing on the Oslo fjord. The main event at the time was the Soil Procession — a procession of farmers carrying soil from their farms through the city of Oslo to its new home at Losæter. Soil Procession was a ground building ceremony that used the soil collected from over 50 Norwegian farms from as far north as Tromsø and as far south as Stokke, to build the foundation of the Flatbread Society Grain Field and Bakehouse.