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Its eastern till plain is typified by dark brown soils used for crops and range and its western till plain is an important grain farming area; in between, its central till plain has brown, aridic-ustic soils primarily used for grazing.
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Rangeland is extensive, especially in areas of aridic soils, poor drainage, or dissected terrain; farmland is found locally in Ecoregion 43 such as on the extensive Quaternary terrace deposits of the Judith River Basin.
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Soils have an aridic moisture regime and they originally supported sagebrush/grass associations before the valley was converted to agriculture.
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Soil moisture regimes are mostly xeric, but aridic at the southern end of the subsection.
Hardpan Terraces 2009
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Soils have an aridic, bordering on ustic, moisture regime and receive more moisture during the growing season than the xeric soils of the Semiarid Bear Hills (18d).
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The region has a hyperthermic soil temperature regime with aridic ustic and typic ustic soil moisture regimes.
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The region consists of mostly Holocene alluvium or Holocene and Pleistocene terrace deposits, with a mix of ustic to aridic, hyperthermic soils.
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Alfisols, Aridisols, Entisols, Histisols, Inceptisols, Mollisols and Vertisols in combination with a thermic soil temperature regime and xeric, aquic or aridic soil moisture regimes.
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Its aridic soils require irrigation to grow commercial crops.
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