Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Farmland classification identifies map units as prime farmland, </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>farmland of statewide importance, farmland of local importance, </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>or unique farmland. It identifies the location and extent of the </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>soils that are best suited to food, feed, fiber, forage, and </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>oilseed crops. NRCS policy and procedures on prime and unique </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>farmlands are published in the "Federal Register," Vol. 43, </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>No. 21, January 31, 1978.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN /></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>sensed and other information.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN /></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>of soils and miscellaneous areas that normally occur in a repeatable</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>the scale mapped. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>National Soil Information System relational database, which gives</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>