The Soil tab maps the soil under a farm’s fields and lists what’s in it. Open it from the farm page, or from an individual field to see that field on its own.
Soil maps are generated from a farm’s fields, not its parcels. A farm with no fields, or whose fields have no productive acres, will prompt you to add them first.
Map views
Three views sit above the map. Switching views changes both the map coloring and the table below it.
Soil Type
Soil Class
Soil Capabilities
Individual soil types by code, the default view. The table lists map color, soil code, soil description, percentage of the map, acres, and soil rating, with a total row carrying the farm’s overall acreage and rating.
Soils grouped into classes. The table drops the soil code and description for a single soil class column.
USDA soil capability classes. Where the farm has both, a toggle on the map switches between Non-Irr and Irrigated capability classes.
Acreage type filter
On farms with more than one field and more than one acreage type, an acreage type filter sits beside the view tabs. Use it to read soil for a subset of the farm — irrigated acres only, for example — rather than the whole property.
Soil rating
Each soil row carries a soil rating, and the total row gives the rating for the farm as a whole, weighted by each soil’s share of the area. On a field page, the total is that field’s rating instead.
Export
View PDF renders the current soil map and its table as a PDF. Available to signed-in users with read permission on the farm.
The same map is also available through Generate Reports, alongside aerial, FEMA, and topography maps.
Data sources
Soil data comes from the SSURGO database distributed by the U.S. NRCS. Illinois soil data is based on research bulletin 811, published by the University of Illinois NRES.
If no soil data exists for the farm’s location, the tab says so rather than showing an empty map. 
