In south-central Michigan, corn and soybeans are grown on low, rolling plains.   These areas were formed beneath the retreating ice sheet, and a technically referred to as ground moraine.  The soils are loamy in texture, and when combined with low slopes, make for excellent agricultural land.  However, subsurface drains are necessary to get the land dry enough in spring to farm.

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