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The importance of long-term experiments in agriculture: their management to
ensure continued crop production and soil fertility; the Rothamsted experience
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Johnston AE
; Poulton PR
Eur J Soil Sci
2018[Jan]; 69
(1
): 113-125
PMID29527119
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Long-term field experiments that test a range of treatments and are intended to
assess the sustainability of crop production, and thus food security, must be
managed actively to identify any treatment that is failing to maintain or
increase yields. Once identified, carefully considered changes can be made to the
treatment or management, and if they are successful yields will change. If
suitable changes cannot be made to an experiment to ensure its continued
relevance to sustainable crop production, then it should be stopped. Long-term
experiments have many other uses. They provide a field resource and samples for
research on plant and soil processes and properties, especially those properties
where change occurs slowly and affects soil fertility. Archived samples of all
inputs and outputs are an invaluable source of material for future research, and
data from current and archived samples can be used to develop models to describe
soil and plant processes. Such changes and uses in the Rothamsted experiments are
described, and demonstrate that with the appropriate crop, soil and management,
acceptable yields can be maintained for many years, with either organic manure or
inorganic fertilizers. HIGHLIGHTS: Long-term experiments demonstrate
sustainability and increases in crop yield when managed to optimize soil
fertility.Shifting individual response curves into coincidence increases
understanding of the factors involved.Changes in inorganic and organic pollutants
in archived crop and soil samples are related to inputs over time.Models
describing soil processes are developed from current and archived soil data.