The potential for surface runoff is negligible to high. Permeability is moderate or moderately rapid. Depth to a seasonal high water table is more than 6 feet. Approximately 60 percent of Berks soils are in cropland and pasture, the remainder are in woodland or other uses. Principal crops are corn, wheat, oats, barley, Christmas trees and hay.
Native vegetation is mixed, deciduous hardwood forest.
The series is of large extent. Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1909. The Ashby, Kistler and Trexler soils, which were moderately shallow in some Pennsylvania published surveys are now included in the Berks Series.