What's under the grass, already mapped.

The place at a glance, before any of the detail

Open the tab and the summary is already there, because these are the things you'd ask standing at the gate:

• 🥇The dominant soil and what share of the surveyed ground it covers.
• 🌾Forage in a normal year, in pounds per acre, with the bad-year and good-year figures beside it.
• 🧪The average profile — pH and organic matter, weighted by acreage rather than averaged flat.
• ⛰️The roughest ground — the steepest map unit and its share, which is usually where a fence crew loses a day. Where USDA's map stops short of your boundary, that slot tells you how much it didn't reach instead, because a gap in the survey is the more urgent thing to know.

The forage number is USDA's published growth for those soils, with no harvest efficiency and no stocking assumption applied. It says so on the screen. What you can actually take off it is your judgment, and we're not going to make it for you with a multiplier you can't see.

A soil map on the same ground as your fences

The map units are drawn on the same satellite map as your pastures and gates, in the same colours the property map uses, so "the heavy corner" stops being a phrase and becomes a shape you can point at. Tap one and it opens:

• 📐This ground — acreage, share of the property, and the dominant slope.
• 🧱The soils in it — a map unit is usually a mix, and the components are named with their percentages.
• 📊The profile by depth — clay, sand and silt, pH, organic matter, available water capacity, rock fragments, salinity, horizon by horizon.
• 🚜What USDA says it will take — the published interpretations and their ratings, for the ground you're standing on.

Every term that isn't plain English carries a note explaining what it means and why you'd care. Nobody should need an agronomy course to read their own dirt.

A soil report you can hand to somebody

The whole survey prints as a PDF soil report, per property — for a lender weighing a loan, a leaseholder asking what they're renting, or an NRCS agent who wants to see what you're working with. It's built from the survey already stored on your property, so what prints is exactly what the tab says, and printing it never waits on a government server.

What this is, and what it isn't

This is the USDA's survey of the ground under you, not a test of your soil. It's the same public data an agent would look up, put on your own map and measured against your own acreage — which is the part that usually doesn't happen, because doing it by hand means a web viewer, a lot of squinting, and a number you have to work out yourself.

• ❌It isn't a lab result. Nothing here replaces pulling samples and sending them off — soil tests tell you about this year; the survey tells you about the ground.
• ❌It's American ground only. The survey is USDA's, so it covers the United States and its territories. Ask for a property outside that and it says so plainly rather than showing you an empty map.
• ❌Not every acre is mapped. Some corners USDA never surveyed. Where that happens you're told how much of the boundary it reached.

It's on every plan

Soil follows the land map, and the land map is on every plan including the free one. There's no credit to spend and nothing to switch on — draw a property and the survey starts fetching. It arrives on the next view, because a government API is not something to make you sit and watch.