Dataset: Woburn Ley-arable experiment: yields of wheat as first test crop, 1976-2018

Citation:  Margaret Glendining, Paul Poulton, Andrew Macdonald, Chloe MacLaren, Suzanne Clark (2022). Dataset: Woburn Ley-arable experiment: yields of wheat as first test crop, 1976-2018 Electronic Rothamsted Archive, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK DOI : https://doi.org/10.23637/wrn3-wheat7618-01.
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Summary

Annual grain yield for the winter wheat test crop, on the Woburn Ley-Arable experiment, 1976-2018, with treatment details.

Methods

The Woburn Ley-arable experiment was started in 1938, to compare the effects of different rotations, with and without grass or grass/clover leys, on soil organic matter and the yield of two arable test crops. 'Test crop' refers to a major cash crop on which the effects of the different arable rotations and leys were assessed. The rotations are typically three years of 'treatment crops' followed by two years of 'test crops' (the exception are the eight-year ley treatments). The two test crops have changed throughout the experiment, and the first test crop has been wheat since 1976. This dataset contains the yield of wheat grown as the first test crop, 1976-2018, plus details of the N fertilizer treatments, basal fertilizer, sowing and harvest dates.

Technical Information

Wheat grain yield at harvest at 85% dry matter content. Winter wheat was grown every year, except for 2015, when the spring wheat variety Mulika was sown, as the winter wheat crop failed.

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Contributors

  • Margaret Glendining: Data curator
  • Andrew Macdonald: Project manager
  • Paul Poulton: Researcher
  • Nathalie Castells: Data manager
  • Chloe MacLaren: Researcher
  • Suzanne Clark: Data manager
  • Rodger White: Data manager

Dataset Access and Conditions

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Rothamsted Research

License

Creative Commons License This dataset is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (4.0).

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YOU MUST CITE AS: Margaret Glendining, Paul Poulton, Andrew Macdonald, Chloe MacLaren, Suzanne Clark (2022). Dataset: Woburn Ley-arable experiment: yields of wheat as first test crop, 1976-2018 Electronic Rothamsted Archive, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK https://doi.org/10.23637/wrn3-wheat7618-01

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Table Of Contents

An Excel file, 01-WRN3-WH7618.xlsx contains the Woburn Ley-arable winter wheat test crop yields for 1976-2018, plus details of the fertilizer treatments applied. Frictionless CSV files are also provided for users who prefer the CSV format.

In accordance with the Joint Code of Practice for Research at Rothamsted, data processing in e-RA follow rigorous standard operating procedures to ensure the quality and correctness of data collected in the field through to depositing in the e-RA database. Once the data were entered into e-RA, they were independently back-checked against the original data sheets.

  • The dataset Woburn Ley-arable experiment: yields of wheat as first test crop, 1976-2018 is a published dataset from the e-RA Database. e-RA is part of the Rothamsted Long-Term Experiments - National Bioscience Research Infrastructure (RLTE-NBRI), which also covers maintenance of the Long-Term Experiments, the Rothamsted Sample Archive and Rothamsted's environmental monitoring activities including the weather stations and its role in the UK Environmental Change Network
  • The RLTE-NBRI is funded by UK Research and Innovation - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UKRI-BBSRC) under award BBS/E/RH/23NB0007 (2023-2028). The RLTE-NBRI is also supported by the Lawes Agricultural Trust. e-RA has been part of a National Capability since 2012, previous awards from the BBSRC were Grants BBS/E/C/00005189 (2012-2017) and BBS/E/C/000J0300 (2017-2022)
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