Moderately well or well drained. Runoff is medium to rapid. Permeability is moderately slow. Gara soils are used for growing native pasture, woodlands, and cultivated crops. Corn, soybeans, oats, and grass-legume meadows are on less sloping areas.
Steeper areas are in pasture.
Native vegetation was oaks, hickories, and prairie grasses. The Gara series is extensive. Daviess County, Missouri, 1952.