Broom's Barn Experimental Station is a Rothamsted Research institute and arable farm in Suffolk, United Kingdom. The current farm manager is Mark Gardner.
In October 1959 the Broom's Barn site, of 190 acres, was acquired by the Rothamsted Experimental Station, with money provided by the Sugar Beet Research and Education Committee. Research had been taking place, previously, at the Dunholme Field Station, near Dunholme Holt, in Lincolnshire since 1935.[1]
The buildings in Lincolnshire were not sufficient. The plant pathologist Raymond Hull had run the Dunholme site from 1949.[2] Dunholme was run by Rothamsted.[3][4]
It merged in 1987 to become part of the Institute of Arable Crops Research. The funding for the site came from the Sugar Beet Research and Education Committee, which became the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO). The research which was being carried out was shut down by the director of the station and science staff left the site. Brooms Barn remains a fully functionally arable farm and LSRE station.
The aerial representation of Brooms and surrounding land from 1597 is of the time. Note how there are roads going through what would be fields today. The dotted/dashed line represents where Brooms Barn Farm would be today, some names have been kept from fields, note the spelling of 'Baroughe'.
Funding
In 1989, for every tonne of sugar beet, 9p went to Broom's Barn.[11]
Directors
1962 Raymond Hull, he died aged 85 on August 26 1996 in Little Saxham[12]
It is situated just south of the A14. In the early 2000s, the site employed around 70 people. It researched sugar beet.[14] Until 1967, the Higham railway station served the site.
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