Land Location Paper

The location of my parcel of land is in Manchester, Iowa a small town in Northeast Iowa. I chose Manchester because that is where I am from and I would like to know some of the characteristics of the soils found in this region. Someday I might want to buy this parcel of land so I thought I should see what soil components are suitable for this parcel of land. My supporting component is a house with a basement. I chose a house as my supporting component because I thought my parcel of land wouldn’t be complete or fit if I didn’t include a place to live. My three income generating components are a rotational grazing pasture, a cornfield and a cattle feedlot. I believe my cornfield and pasture fit well on this parcel of land because of the high fertility of land they sit on. The average CSR rating for Delaware County in 2001 was 63.0. The CSR ratings for my pasture and corn field range from 91-95. Also, my house
These soils are Sawmill silty clay loam and Marshan clay loam. I chose this location because my pasture runs into Plum Creek, which I will use Plum Creek as my water supply for my cows. Some suitability’s include drainage class, fence post depth and Cation Exchange Capacity. My fence post position on the eastern half of my land could provide potential problems. These areas have shrink swell clays and high potential frost action. However, I really think that I can put fence in these locations at the 36-inch depth, I will not have any problems because shrink swell clays shouldn’t affect the strength of the fence posts in the soil, in my opinion. Also, flooding could also be a potential problem, however 1152 soil has a low occasional flood rating. My pasture location runs into Plum Creek, which is pretty dry, but could potentially be a problem with heavy rains. Otherwise, my location for my pasture does not provide any other potential problems for having my beef herd on