Research

Today I was doing resarch on a piece of property we are looking at purchasing
and I found a nifty resoure and thought I'd pass it along. We were told by the
owners of the property we are currenty looking at, that they were class 1 soils
so I did a search for soil types and found some very informative websites that
provide data on soil types. The first one is by the Natural Resources Conservation
service at: http://soils.usda.gov/technical/handbook/contents/part622.html
on the top bar they have several catagorys and I clicked on the "Soil survey" tab
and on the top there is a link to another website by the USDA it is the official USDA soil information as viewable maps and tables for more than 2300 soil surveys.
this is the link: http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/HomePage.htm

On the top of the page there is a green button to the left and you click on it
and it take you to a map of the united states you can click on the state of intrest
and can even select a specific county. A map of the area if intrest will come up but to display specific soil class info you have to use the aoi tool at the top bar to select a smaller area. The map will then display the specific soil type to your area and has a list of the soil types displayed on the map that can be opened up and viewed. The ony note is that • Web Soil Survey is unavailable nightly between 1:00 AM and 5:00 AM Eastern time for soil survey data updates.
• Web Soil Survey may be unavailable on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 8:00 PM and 10:30 PM Eastern time for scheduled maintenance and software updates.
• Web Soil Survey may also be unavailable the third weekend of each month, and the second Sunday of each month, for scheduled maintenance.
• It may also be necessary from time to time to bring Web Soil Survey down for unscheduled maintenance.

Happy soil hunting!!

New year, New plans

Well, what can I say?? I havent posted for a while but not for the lack of
stuff going on... Let's just say that things did'nt work out between myself
and Denny Hunt. and not for a lack of trying. Let's just say we had a
" operations" difference of opion. So we have parted ways...

On a brighter note


We are still looking at ways to get on a farm, but after looking at real estate
in california, we decided to look elsewere. I grew up in oregon so that is where
we are looking now. Sothern Oregon has good land prices and good marketing potential
It would be close (3 hr dr) to my dad's place in Drain so we potentially would have more opportunities to visit him and Darcy has friends in the Medford area.