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Custom Soil Resource Report Table—Non irrigated Capability Class Nonirrigated Capability Class—Summary by Map Unit—Yuma County,Colorado(CO125) Map unit symbol Map unit name Rating Acres in AOI Percent of AOI 15 Eckley gravelly sandy 6 4.1 41.1% loam,3 to 7 percent slopes 32 Paoli sandy loam 3 5.2 52.3% 135 Platner loam 3 0.7 6.6% Totals for Area of Interest 10.0 100.0% Rating Options—Non irrigated Capability Class Aggregation Method: Dominant Condition Component Percent Cutoff.- None Specified Tie-break Rule: Higher Vegetative Productivity Vegetative productivity includes estimates of potential vegetative production for a variety of land uses,including cropland,forestland, hayland, pastureland, horticulture and rangeland. In the underlying database, some states maintain crop yield data by individual map unit component. Other states maintain the data at the map unit level. Attributes are included for both,although only one or the other is likely to contain data for any given geographic area. For other land uses, productivity data is shown only at the map unit component level. Examples include potential crop yields under irrigated and nonirrigated conditions,forest productivity,forest site index, and total rangeland production under of normal,favorable and unfavorable conditions. Range Production (Normal Year) Total range production is the amount of vegetation that can be expected to grow annually in a well managed area that is supporting the potential natural plant community. It includes all vegetation,whether or not it is palatable to grazing animals. It includes the current year's growth of leaves,twigs,and fruits of woody plants. It does not include the increase in stem diameter of trees and shrubs.It is expressed in pounds per acre of air-dry vegetation. In a normal year,growing conditions are about average. Yields are adjusted to a common percent of air-dry moisture content. In areas that have similar climate and topography,differences in the kind and amount of vegetation produced on rangeland are closely related to the kind of soil. Effective management is based on the relationship between the soils and vegetation and water.