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Broadbalk established long-running comparisons of manure, mineral fertilizers and untreated plots in wheat. Its continuing measurements and retained samples made long-term questions about soil nutrients and crop production researchable.
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This is an experiment and research resource, not a universal fertilizer recommendation or one unchanged treatment protocol. Founders do not receive automatic credit for all later analyses; subsequent teams and datasets require their own attribution.
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John Bennet Lawes; Joseph Henry Gilbert
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Broadbalk: measuring soil fertility and crop yields across generations
Broadbalk established long-running comparisons of manure, mineral fertilizers and untreated plots in wheat. Its continuing measurements and retained samples made long-term questions about soil nutrients and crop production researchable.
Scientific scope
This is an experiment and research resource, not a universal fertilizer recommendation or one unchanged treatment protocol. Founders do not receive automatic credit for all later analyses; subsequent teams and datasets require their own attribution.
Reading status
This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
John Bennet Lawes; Joseph Henry Gilbert
Named source contributors; broader team, precursor or trial-group roster remains incomplete.