USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Office of Farmland Protection and Community Planning

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Land Evaluation and Site Assessment
Computer-Assisted Land Evaluation System

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Begin CALES Session

User's Manual (pdf)

E-mail Comments

CALES Steps:
  1. Select data for a county
  2. Display worksheet 1
  3. Check data for needed changes
  4. Edit worksheet 1 data
  5. Determine important farmland
  6. Adjust yields for cost of conservation practices
  7. Group soils
  8. Generate worksheet 2
  9. Save data