The frost-free period is 100 to 165 days. These are the Bakeoven , Lickskillet , Valby and Wrentham soils and the competing Cantala soils. All of these except Valby and Cantala soils contain more than 35 percent fragments coarser than 2 mm. Also, Bakeoven and Lickskillet soils are less than 20 inches deep to bedrock. Valby soils are calcareous at depths of 15 to 30 inches.
Principal use is for growing grain crops.
Other uses are production of hay, pasture and native range. Native plants are bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, Sandberg bluegrass and forbs such as yarrow, phlox and buckwheat. The series is extensive. Rock Creek Project, Gilliam County, Oregon, 1939. Depth to lithic contact - 31 inches.