Utilizing utisols for agriculture requires FERTILIZERS TO REPLACE THE NUTRIENTS THAT LEACH FROM THE SOIL.
Ultisols is a type of soil, which is considered number 12 on the US soil taxonomy. Utisol has the following properties: it is acidic in nature, it is reddish in colour and it is very rich in clay. Naturally, this type of soil support mixed forestry vegetation but it can be made suitable for agricultural use by adding fertilizer and lime to it. Lime has to be added to utisol in order to neutralize its acidity. Fertilizers has to be added to utisol to compensate for the nutrients that leached away from the soil, to the lower soil horizon.
