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Spatial Relationship Between Soil Productivity and Farming.
Monday, October 22, 2012: 4:10 PM
Duke Energy Convention Center, Room 260-261, Level 2, 2
Ioannis Kokkinidis, Crop Soil & Environmental Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Steven Hodges, 235 Smyth Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
The Virginia Agricultural Land Use Agronomic Evaluation System (VALUES) is a field verified database of soil series found in Virginia classed according to their potential agricultural productivity. Joining VALUES with SSURGO creates a spatially distributed database of land productivity. There are several high resolution remote sensing products from which we can accurately depict the extent of Virginia's farmland. A comparison of farmland and soil productivity over select Virginia counties shows that farmland is not randomly distributed but takes place on land that has above average agricultural productivity potential.