The fine-loamy Clark and Ost soils are generally on slightly lower positions. The fine-loamy Farnum and Shellabarger soils are generally on slightly higher positions. The somewhat poorly drained Kanza and Waldeck soils are on adjacent flood plains. More than half of the acreage is cultivated. Winter wheat and grain sorghum are the principal crops.
Native vegetation is tall prairie grasses.
LRR H Great Plains Winter Wheat and Range, MLRA 79 Great Bend Sand Plains. Added wet consistence to the typical pedon description. Removed all non-competing series from the competing series section. Made some minor changes to the geographic associated soils section. Series was modified to mesic due to the final correlation of the Reno County, Kansas soil survey.