The first order of business for the 2026 National Soil Judging contest was traveling from Borlaug Hall to Clarksville, VA. The drove in shifts to complete the ~18 hour journey from Minnesota to Virginia. This took us across some familiar and not so familiar landscapes! The glaciated north central plains and Prairie Peninsula Region, the Alleghany Plateau, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and finally to the Virginia Piedmont, where we rested prior to an amazing Day 0 field day at Scott and Shea Bambu's property near Halifax, Virginia.
The team just prior to leaving Borlaug Hall on March 18th. Snow on the ground but a beautiful spring day!
Our journey from Minnesota to Virginia!
