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Minnesota Association of Professional Soil Scientists (MAPSS)
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The MAPSS State Soil - the Lester Loam
The Lester Series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in loamy calcareous glacial till on ground moraines. Slopes ranged from 5 to 70 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 28 inches and mean annual soil temperature is about 49 degrees.
These soils formed under wooded vegetation that has been removed in many areas for agricultural production. Where used for crops, corn and soybeans are the principal ones. Corn yields ranges from 108 to 143 bushels/acre and soybean yields range from 27 to 44 bushels/acre, depending on slope and climate changes within the major land resource area (MRLA).
Lester soils are of moderate extent, occurring in 75 mapping units in 17 different counties in MLRA 103 in south-central Minnesota, which total over 600,000 acres.
Click on the following to be forwarded to information about the Lester soil provided by the NRCS. Lester Loam
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