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Mapped at 1:50,000, CLI has been the national agricultural-capability baseline used in valuation and policy since the 1960s.",[10,28,30],{"id":29},"what-it-carries","What it carries",[15,32,33,34,37,38,41],{},"Each parcel carries its ",[19,35,36],{},"CLI class"," and a single-letter ",[19,39,40],{},"limiter"," code - for example M for moisture or T for topography - that explains why the parcel is rated where it is. Township Canada inverts and normalizes the class to a 0-100 score: Class 1 maps to 100, Class 4 to roughly 57, Class 7 to 14.",[10,43,45],{"id":44},"coverage-and-refresh","Coverage and refresh",[15,47,48,49,52],{},"CLI is a ",[19,50,51],{},"static reference"," layer: the class boundaries reflect the original 1960s-to-1980s mapping and are revised only occasionally. It is national in coverage. Because it is decades old, we treat it as one input among four, not the last word - field-level appraisal still requires on-the-ground verification.",[54,55,56],"blockquote",{},[15,57,58],{},"Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.\nSource: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Canada Land Inventory.",[10,60,62],{"id":61},"how-township-canada-shows-it","How Township Canada shows it",[15,64,65,66,69,70,75,76,79],{},"CLI is the ",[19,67,68],{},"capability component (30% weight)"," of the composite ",[71,72,74],"a",{"href":73},"\u002Flearn\u002Fag\u002Fscore-methodology","Productivity Score",". 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