Soil Landscapes of Canada: the National Soil Fallback
Soil Landscapes of Canada v3.2 is the national soil-order dataset. Township Canada uses it for soil context outside Alberta, where AGRASID does not reach.
What it is
Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC) v3.2 is Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's national soil dataset, describing soil order and great group at roughly 1:1 million scale. Inside Alberta we use the finer AGRASID; outside Alberta, SLC is the fallback that keeps soil context with you in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and British Columbia.
What it carries
SLC contributes the soil order and great group for a quarter section, from which we derive an estimated productivity range where a measured LSRS score is not available. Because SLC is coarse, many quarter sections sit on a single polygon and receive an averaged value - so we label the fallback explicitly in the UI rather than presenting it as a measured score.
Coverage and refresh
SLC provides soil context across the Prairies and BC outside Alberta, covering hundreds of thousands of quarter sections where AGRASID does not reach, refreshed annually in March.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Soil Landscapes of Canada v3.2.
How Township Canada shows it
SLC fills the soil card on the Agriculture tab of the parcel report outside Alberta, always labelled as the SLC fallback. Province-specific soil indices (SAMA in Saskatchewan, MASC in Manitoba) are on the roadmap to replace this coarse estimate.
/images/learn/data-sources/soil-landscapes-canada/slc-fallback-card.png): the Agriculture tab soil card on a Saskatchewan parcel, showing the SLC soil order with the explicit "fallback" label.Related
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