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The Centralia demonstration site is located in Boone County, Missouri, on a corn field that is in a corn-soybean rotation. The dominant crops grown in the area are soybean, corn, wheat, and pasture forage. This area is in the Claypan Major Land Resource area. Claypans are characterized by a distinct boundary between a layer of topsoil that is relatively low in clay and a layer below that has a 20% or greater increase in clay content. The claypan is compact and slowly permeable to air and water. Claypans are usually hard when dry, and plastic and sticky when wet.

Thin Loess Prairie:  Putnam-Mexico association

• Nearly level prairie

• Dark-gray, medium textured surface soil

• Dense clay

• Easily farmed

• Productive when limed and fertilized

• Suited to all grain and forage crops grown in region

• Major management problem is improving soil fertility

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