You are a land management consultant and have been hired to…
You are a land management consultant and have been hired to provide advice about a large farms land purchase. The land owner has taken you to a 500 acre field and has asked for your opinion on the buffering ability of this soil. The landowner has had the soil analyzed and gives you the results but the page with the CEC is missing. All you have is a basic mineralogical analysis. It tells you 25% of n the soil is montmorillite (CEC=150 cmol(+)/kg) and the soil has 5% organic matter (CEC=300 cmol(+)/kg). What is the approximate CEC of the soil.