Ely and Judson soils are on foot slopes above the Bremer soils. Surface runoff is slow. Permeability is moderately slow. Commonly used to grow corn, soybeans, small grains and hay. Native vegetation is tall prairie grasses.
Bremer soils are in southern and eastern Iowa, northern Missouri, Kansas, and Minnesota.
They are of moderate extent. Bremer County, Iowa, 1913. The difference in clay content between the A and B horizons is partly due to stratification of the parent material.