Stuttgart -- Arkansas State Soil

Photograph of a landscape with Stuttgart soils. The specific landscape is a field of rice on the level foreground with woodland in the background.

Photograph of a soil profile of a representative pedon of the Stuttgart soil series.

Stuttgart Soil Profile

Surface layer: dark grayish brown and grayish brown silt loam
Subsurface layer: yellowish brown silt loam
Subsoil - upper: red silty clay
Subsoil - lower: grayish brown and light brownish gray silty clay loam
 Stuttgart soils are named for the City of Stuttgart in southeast Arkansas. They are used primarily for crops, mainly rice, soybeans, small grains, and corn. The Stuttgart area is famous for its large fall and winter population of ducks and geese. These waterfowl feed heavily on the crops grown on the Stuttgart soils. Stuttgart soils have been mapped on about 200,000 acres in Arkansas.

The Stuttgart series consists of very deep, moderately well drained or somewhat poorly drained soils formed in silty and clayey alluvium. These level to gently sloping soils are on the Grand Prairie in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Because of the surface layer of silt loam and slow permeability in the clayey subsoil, the soils are ideal for rice production.

Small scale map of Arkansas showing location of Stuttgart soils.
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