Morley Long-Term Studies (Morley-LoTS)

Contact: Nathan Morris

Long term monitoring studies are a valuable strategic resource that are difficult to maintain through short term or commercial funding and hard to replace once lost. Within East Anglia (notably at Morley) there are several long-term studies that provide unique data and are excellent research platforms. 

Morley Long Term Studies (LoTS) is a continuation of NIAB's original National Agronomy Centre and MENTOR work, covering many of the long-term strategic field trials, including STAR and the Saxmundham Experimental site (est. 1899) and long-term wheat, barley and sugar beet fungicide response trials. These trials have focused on long term strategic agronomy and monitoring.

David Clarke, NIAB's soils and farming systems research technician,  introduces the 120-year-old TMAF-funded experiment site in Suffolk, studying P&K fertilisers v FYM, including what's gone before and what's happening now, in this video from 2021.

PROJECT TIMINGS

September 2019-August 2024

RESOURCES

Outputs include annual reports as well as peer-reviewed academic papers and conference presentations as well as farmer-facing materials provided for the NIAB and TMAF websites.

Fungicide timing response monitoring
Studying the yield responses to each of the component spray timings within a fungicide spray programme on winter wheat at Morley

Studying the yield responses to each of the component spray timings within a fungicide spray programme on winter barley at Morley.

Sugar beet

Periodic harvest of sugar beet and fungicide interaction
Determining the growth rate and yield benefit of sugar beet treated during the late summer and autumn with and without a triazole and strobilurin fungicide programme

Periodic harvest of sugar beet and biorepellent interaction

Studies of the effectiveness of Frass as a bio-repellent
Examining the benefit of sugar beet treated with Frass as a biorepellent to reduce aphid transmission of virus yellows.

Event posters

Saxmundham Experimental site (2023)