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.
Project timing
September 2019-August 2024
Project reports and information
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 in winter wheat at Morley - 2021/22 season (WW22-05501) - issue March 2023
Studying the yield responses to each of the component spray timings within a fungicide spray programme on wheat. - Fungicide timing response monitoring in winter wheat at Morley - 2020/21 season (WW21-05501) - issue May 2022
Studying the yield responses to each of the component spray timings within a fungicide spray programme on wheat. - Fungicide timing response monitoring in winter barley at Morley - 2021/22 season (WB22-05502) - issued March 2023
Studying the yield responses to each of the component spray timings within a fungicide spray programme on winter barley. - Fungicide timing response monitoring in winter barley at Morley - 2020/21 season (WB21-05502) - issued April 2023
Studying the yield responses to each of the component spray timings within a fungicide spray programme on winter barley.
- 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
