Buchel soils are moderately well drained. Permeability is very slow. Water enters the soil rapidly when it is cracked and dry and very slow when it is wet. Runoff is low. Most areas of Buchel soils are farmed to grain sorghum, wheat, corn or cotton.
Native vegetation is dominantly bluestems, paspalums and panicums.
Trees include pecan, elm, and hackberry. In the northeast part of the Rio Grande Plain and southwestern part of the Blackland Prairie of Texas along major streams and rivers such as the Guadalupe, Nueces, and San Antonio Rivers. The series is of moderate extent. Mollic epipedon - 0 to 42 inches. Cambic horizon - 42 to 86 inches.