The mean annual precipitation is about 30 inches. The somewhat poorly drained Belding and the poorly drained or very poorly drained Breckenridge soils are in the same drainage sequence. Nester , Menominee , and Isabella soils are common associates. Nester soils do not have spodic horizons and have finer textured sola. Well drained and moderately well drained.
Surface runoff is slow or medium depending upon slopes.
Permeability is moderately rapid in the A and Bs horizons, and moderately slow in the 2Bt and 2C horizons. A large part of these soils on gentle slopes is cropped to small grains, hay, corn, and beans. A large part on the steeper slopes is in forest, permanent pasture or is idle cropland. The native vegetation was mixed hardwoods, chiefly sugar maple, white ash, and American beech, with some eastern white pine. Northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.