Editing Rothamsted Research (section)

===Recent history===

In 1987, Rothamsted, the [[Long Ashton Research Station]], and [[Broom's Barn Experimental Station]] merged to form the Institute of Arable Crops Research (IACR). The Long Ashton Research Station was closed in 2002, with some of its staff moved to Rothamsted, whilst Broom's Barn is operated as an experimental farm for Rothamsted.

Rothamsted is now operated by a grouping of private organizations under the name of Rothamsted Research and is mainly funded by various branches of the UK government through the [[Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council]]. Rothamsted Research supports around 350 scientists (including 50 visiting scientists), 150 administrative staff and 60 PhD students.<ref name="AboutUs">{{cite web | url=http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/Content.php?Section=AboutUs | title=About Us | publisher=Rothamsted Research | access-date=4 April 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306182327/http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/Content.php?Section=AboutUs | archive-date=6 March 2012 }}</ref>

As well as the Rothamsted site Rothamsted Research operates:<ref name="AboutUs"/>
* Broom's Barn, a {{convert|120|ha|adj=on}} experimental farm near [[Bury St Edmunds]], Suffolk, which is the UK's national centre for [[sugar beet]] research.
* [[North Wyke]], {{convert|250|ha}} of grassland near [[Okehampton]], Devon. It provides a "Farm Platform" allowing research teams to conduct experiments on three {{convert|25|ha|acre|adj=on|abbr=off}} mini-farms. It was formerly part of the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research.

Its research programme has five main areas:
* Delivering Sustainable Wheat: a co-ordinated and collaborative initiative led by the [[John Innes Centre]] to address critical challenges in wheat health, yield, and production in order to safeguard the future of this vital crop.
* Green Engineering: advancing and exploiting understanding of genetic intervention and metabolic regulation to deliver high value plant products and germplasm for health, nutrition, and a more sustainable future.
* Resilient Farming Futures: combining primary and secondary data, in vivo and in silico experiments, and the development of data science and decision-making tools, to forearm the farming sector and additional stakeholders.
* Growing Health: Towards healthier agro-ecosystems.
* AgZero+: supporting the UK’s transition towards home-grown food production that is sustainable, carbon-neutral and has a positive effect on nature (led by the [[UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology]]).

It also operates:
* The Long Term Experiments and e-RA:The oldest continuing agricultural field experiments in the world. Seven of these Long-term Experiments (LTEs) continue today and provide an invaluable resource for scientists.The online e-RA brings the data from the classical and other long-term experiments into an accessible and useable database.
* The Insect Survey: two national networks for monitoring insect populations in the UK.<ref>Harrington, Richard and Woiwod, Ian (February 2007) [http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/insect-survey/documents/Outlooks%20on%20Pest%20Management.pdf  Foresight from hindsight: The Rothamsted Insect Survey] Outlooks on Pest Management, Volume 18, Number 1, Retrieved 22 May 2012</ref>
* [[PHI-base]]: a database of multiple pathogen-host interactions.<ref>{{Cite journal 
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