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The Land Judging Score Card1

J. H. Herbert, Jr., R. B. Brown, and E. A. Hanlon, Jr.2

The Land Judging Score Card is available only in PDF format. Click here to download the PDF. Full explanations of Land Characteristics and Conservation Practices can be found in Circular 242 Land Judging and Homesite Evaluation in Florida (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/SS181).

How to Use the Land Judging Score Card

1. Score cards must ALWAYS be identified with Field No. and Name.

2. An "X" is used to mark your answers for Part One, Part Two and Soil Order. Land Capability Class should be circled.

3. In case the land is in Class I, the rule is to mark no factors! For other classes, the rule is to mark the factors that keep the land from being Class I.

4. The perfect score of each field is variable, depending on the number of conservation practices required.

5. The blank lines (items 17, 26, and 33) on the Land Judging Score Card can be used to write in soil-conserving and soil-improving practices not listed. When they are to be used, officials will make this announcement before the contest begins so that everyone may write in the practice or practices.

6. In selecting conservation practices for Part 2 of the score card, consider the most intensive use that could be made of the land based on its limitations.

7. Select only the number of conservation practices needed for each site. If you use more conservation practices than are necessary, the judges will give credit for correct practices and deduct penalty points for those practices that have been checked but are incorrect.

Footnotes

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This document is SL-144, one of a series of the Soil and Water Science Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date August, 1985. Revised January, 1999. Reviewed September, 2003. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

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J. H. Herbert, Jr., Associate Professor Emeritus, Soil and Water Science Department; R. B. Brown, Professor Emeritus, Soil and Water Science Department; and E. A. Hanlon, Jr., Professor and Center Director, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center; Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Millie Ferrer-Chancy, Interim Dean.