Hoven soils are in depressions. Bon soils do not have a natric horizon and are on higher positions in the landscape. Egas soils do not have a natric horizon and are on slightly higher positions in the micro-relief. Farmsworth soils have thicker surface horizons and are leached of salts to greater depths and are on slightly higher positions in the micro-relief. Runoff is negible to high depending on slope.
Permeability is very slow or slow.
It has a water table that typically fluctuates between 1 and 6 feet, but is at the surface during the spring of most years and the soil is saturated to the surface. Used mainly as native rangeland and hayland. Native vegetation includes western wheatgrass, alkali cordgrass, inland saltgrass, and nuttail alkaligrass. Central and south-central South Dakota. The series is of moderate extent.