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.
- Saxmundham Experimental Site Report 2022 (WW22-9513) - issued May 2023
Measuring and comparing the response to crop and soil from the application of granular and foliar phosphate and potassium based mineral fertilisers, manures and organic amendments. - TMAF Saxmundham site webpages
- Saxmundham Experimental Site Report 2021 (WW21-9513) - issued May 2022
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
- 2022/23 season (WW23-05501) - issued June 2024
- 2021/22 season (WW22-05501) - issued March 2023
- 2020/21 season (WW21-05501) - issued May 2022
Studying the yield responses to each of the component spray timings within a fungicide spray programme on winter barley at Morley.
- 2022/23 season (WB23-05502) - issued June 2024
- 2021/22 season (WB22-05502) - issued March 2023
- 2020/21 season (WB21-05502) - issued April 2023
Sugar beet
- Periodic harvest of sugar beet and fungicide interaction - 2021/22 season (SBT22-810) - issued May 2023
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 - 2021/22 season (SBT22-820) - issued May 2023
Examining the benefit of sugar beet treated with Frass as a biorepellent to reduce aphid transmission of virus yellows. - Periodic harvest of sugar beet and fungicide interaction (SBT21-810) - issued May 2022
- Studies of the effectiveness of Frass as a bio-repellent - 2020/21 season (SBT21-820) - issued May 2022
Event posters
Saxmundham Experimental site (2023)
