# HALOWERK Southern Land – Italy Soil Texture Class

> HALOWERK Southern Land – Italy Soil Texture Class is a paid API for AI agents from suedland.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the USDA soil texture class (e.g. clay, loam, sandy loam) for a given coordinate in Italy, derived from SoilGrids sand, silt, and clay fractions.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://suedland.halowerk.com/v1/it-soil-texture
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/halowerk-southern-land-italy-soil-texture-class-63ced346
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_f6BzZ_iKRRjikUvx_yWu9

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability halowerk-southern-land-italy-soil-texture-class-63ced346 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What USDA soil texture class does SoilGrids assign to the site at latitude 43.76, longitude 11.25 in Italy — is it sandy loam, clay, or something else?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a human-interpretable USDA soil texture class (not raw fraction numbers) for a specific Italian coordinate, particularly for agricultural planning, land valuation, or agronomy workflows scoped to Italy. Use sibling endpoints for raw sand fraction, CEC, or other individual soil parameters.

## Known failure modes

- Coordinate outside Italy boundary: request rejected before payment with a geographic validation error
- Coordinate within input range but outside Italy polygon: boundary check fails, no result returned
- Missing or malformed latitude/longitude: request rejected with input validation error
- SoilGrids upstream data unavailable for sparse or coastal coordinates: may return null or error

## How this service works

USDA texture class calculated from SoilGrids sand, silt and clay fractions. The coordinate is validated against the Natural Earth boundary for Italy; results outside it are rejected before payment.

## Output

Returns the USDA soil texture class (e.g. 'Sandy Loam', 'Clay Loam', 'Silt') derived from SoilGrids sand, silt, and clay fractions for the 0–5 cm layer at the queried coordinate. Coordinates outside the validated Italy boundary are rejected before payment is charged.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "latitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 72.5,
   "minimum": 34,
   "description": "WGS84 latitude inside the published European coverage."
  },
  "longitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 40.5,
   "minimum": -31.5,
   "description": "WGS84 longitude inside the published European coverage."
  }
 }
}
```

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