Plans and treatments

Plans and treatments

• Summary of Broadbalk Sections and name changes: See Broadbalk Section names
• Summary of Broadbalk Strips and the fertilizer treatment changes See Broadbalk Strip names
• Broadbalk today: https://doi.org/10.23637/rbk1-today2018-02 Broadbalk Wheat Experiment plan and cropping since 2018. Showing plot layout, rotation and treatment codes, and Broadbalk Wilderness. Also cropping details since 1968, showing sections (0-9), wheat cultivars and the different rotations.
• Broadbalk fertilizer treatments: https://doi.org/10.23637/rbk1-FertTreats-02 Broadbalk wheat experiment fertilizer and manure treatments 1852-2021. Updated January 2024 to include average nutrient content of FYM.
• Broadbalk plan and cropping 1852-1925: https://doi.org/10.23637/rbk1-sup-1534342858-02 Experiment plan 1852-1925, with full details of fertilizer and manure treatments applied. Also cropping details, showing winter wheat cultivars and strip division, and cropping 1839-1843 before the experiment was started.
• Broadbalk plan and cropping 1926-1967: https://doi.org/10.23637/rbk1-plan1926-67-02 Experiment plan 1926-1967, showing plot layout and treatment codes, with full details of fertilizer and manure treatments applied. Also cropping details, showing winter wheat cultivars, wheat/fallow rotations and the different sections (I-V).
• Broadbalk plan and cropping 1968-2017: https://doi.org/10.23637/rbk1-plan1968-2017-01 Experiment plan, showing crop rotations from 1996 and fertilizer treatments from 2001, and the Broadbalk Wilderness. Also details of fertilizer and cropping 1968-2017.
• Broadbalk cropping 1843-2021: https://doi.org/10.23637/rbk1-crop1843-2021-01 Cropping details from the start of the experiment, with details of crops grown, cultivars, strip divisions, sections and crop rotations.
• Broadbalk chalk applications Summary tables of the routine chalk (lime) applications to the Broadbalk experiment, first applied in 1955, in pdf format. The data is also available as a dataset, https://doi.org/10.23637/rbk1-chalk-01
• Broadbalk dates of key field operations, 1843-2021: https://doi.org/10.23637/rbk1-keydates-pdf-01 Dates of sowing, harvest, ploughing, FYM and N fertilizer application. Also wheat cultivars. Published as a pdf.