Agriculture.com Executive Editor John Walter spoke to developer Toby O’Green after conducting an eye-opening test, where fields just a couple hundred yards from each other held differing soils and qualities. O’Green said the soils information can be used by farmers and ranchers for problem solving. You can “address what that problem could be, such as the presence of a root restrictive layer, differences in drainage, plant available water, shrink-swell, erodibility, etc,” he said.

O’Green also noted that the app is a way to free users from being tied to a desktop computer or printed copy when accessing soils data. "That's the way soil surveys were intended to be used," he said.

The app includes much more information, including a soil productivity rating, drainage class, and depth profiles.