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Lexington is located in Lafeyette County, Missouri.  The dominant crops grown in the area are soybean, corn, and winter wheat. The Lexington demonstration site is located on a corn field that is in a corn-soybean rotation.  The soils in the area were formed in silty loess from 8 to 90 feet in thickness underlain by limestone, shale, or sandstone bedrock. The association is found mostly in uplands and comprises about 62% of soils in the county.

Marshall-Higginsville association

• Gently sloping to strongly sloping

• Loamy

• Silty

• Soils formed in silty loess

• Sheet erosion is a major hazard

Marshall soils

• Found on ridges and upper part of hillsides

• Moderately permeable

• Well drained

• Surface layer is very dark brown silt loam

• Subsoil upper layer is black silt loam and lower layer is very dark grayish-brown light silty clay loam

Higginsville soils

•  Found on ridges and hillsides

• Slowly permeable

• Somewhat poorly drained

• Surface layer is black silt loam

• Subsoil is silty clay loam

• Subsoil upper layer is dark gray and very dark gray, mottled grayish brown

• Subsoil middle layer is dark grayish brown, dark yellowish brown and grayish brown

• Subsoil lower layer is mottle gray and yellowish brown

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