Field Trials
Warwick Crop Centre hosts a range of specialised sites and equipment to carry out field trials
Our facilities include:
- Over 6 hectares available annually for field vegetable and other crop trials work (with irrigation)
- Site with depleted P & K status for soil nutrient studies
- Micro-plots
- Clubroot-infected site
- Allium White Rot-infected site
- Fusarium oxysporum infected sites (onion, lettuce)
- Sclerotinia-infected site
- Cavity spot infected site
- Specific site with a perpetual carrot fly population
- Specific site for cabbage root fly trials
- Specific site for lettuce aphid trials
- Root and seed cleaning facilities
- Soil grinding and plant milling facilities
- Drying oven
- Precision fertiliser application technology
- On-site soil and plant analytical laboratory
- An insect rearing unit which provides material for laboratory and field experiments
- UK Met Office weather station
- Rothamsted Insect Survey suction trap
- Assistance with experimental design and data analysis
Contact
For more information, please contact Sally Mann
Email:
Telephone: 024 765 75007