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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Displays the Farmland Classification field of the oki.sde.Soils feature class. Farmland classification identifies map units as prime farmland, farmland of statewide importance, farmland of local importance, or unique farmland. It identifies the location and extent of the soils that are best suited to food, feed, fiber, forage, and oilseed crops. NRCS policy and procedures on prime and unique farmlands are published in the "Federal Register," Vol. 43, No. 21, January 31, 1978.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This dataset contains soil data for the eight county OKI region from the NRCS SSURGO database, updated in October 2014 and compiled for OKI in December 2014 using the NRCS Soil Data Viewer 6.1. Attribute data includes soils taxonomy classifications, farmland classification, drainage/runoff characteristics, septic tank absorption class, and other soil property data. See T:\GIS\OKI\Soils\OKISoils_DataDictionary.xlsx for a complete listing of attribute data and descriptions.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |