Historical Agricultural Data from the University of Illinois.
morrowplots 
Use morrowplots to load, explore, and analyze nearly 150 years of ag data from the historic Morrow Plots at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Data collection and formats have evolved over time, and this dataset was created to aggregate decades of tabular data (previously in various physical and digital forms) into a format compatible with the R programming language. Vignettes provide mini lessons on the history of the Morrow Plots and example code for exploration of the data.
Installation
You can install the stable version from CRAN.
install.packages("morrowplots")
You can install the development version Github:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("SandiCal/morrowplots")
Structure
Data is structured as a dataframe in the Tidy Data format so that each variable has its own column, each observation has its own row, and each value has its own cell.
## preview first 12 rows of data
library(morrowplots)
library(knitr)
kable(morrowplots[1:12, ])
| phase | year | plot | plot_num | plot_dir | rotation | corn | crop | variety | all_corn | yield_bush | yield_ton | treated | treatment | manure | lime | nit | p205 | k20 | stover | population | plant_date | plant_day | soil_sample | damage | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1888 | 3NA | 3 | NW | 1 | TRUE | CC | Burr’s White | FALSE | 54.3 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 3NB | 3 | NW | 1 | TRUE | CC | Burr’s White | FALSE | 54.3 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 3NC | 3 | NE | 1 | TRUE | CC | Burr’s White | FALSE | 54.3 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 3ND | 3 | NE | 1 | TRUE | CC | Burr’s White | FALSE | 54.3 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 3SA | 3 | SW | 1 | TRUE | CC | Burr’s White | FALSE | 54.3 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 3SB | 3 | SW | 1 | TRUE | CC | Burr’s White | FALSE | 54.3 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 3SC | 3 | SE | 1 | TRUE | CC | Burr’s White | FALSE | 54.3 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 3SD | 3 | SE | 1 | TRUE | CC | Burr’s White | FALSE | 54.3 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 4NA | 4 | NW | 2 | TRUE | C | Burr’s White | FALSE | 49.5 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 4NB | 4 | NW | 2 | TRUE | C | Burr’s White | FALSE | 49.5 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 4NC | 4 | NE | 2 | TRUE | C | Burr’s White | FALSE | 49.5 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
| 1 | 1888 | 4ND | 4 | NE | 2 | TRUE | C | Burr’s White | FALSE | 49.5 | NA | FALSE | none | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1888-05-04 | 125 | FALSE | NA | NA |
Variables
The codebook that describes all variables is available in the help documentation.
help(morrowplots)
Including:
- phase
An integer between 1-5 that describes the important stages of the experiment when plot size, crop rotation or treatments changed.
- year
Date in YYYY format for year crops were planted and harvested.
- plot
Character string that indicates the plot number, North/South location, and A/B/C/D subplot (see Data Sources section above for an important note about plot names); values are 3NA; 3NB; 3NC; 3ND; 3SA; 3SB; 3SC; 3SD; 4NA; 4NB; 4NC; 4ND; 4SA; 4SB; 4SC; 4SD; 5NA; 5NB; 5NC; 5ND; 5SA; 5SB; 5SC; 5SD
- plot_num
Integer of 3, 4, or 5 for the plot number without subplot indicators.
- plot_dir
Character string that indicates the north/south and east/west direction; values are NE, NW, SE, or SW.
- rotation
An integer of 1, 2, or 3 that describes the year in the crop rotation schedule.
- corn
A true or false variable to make it easy to group corn in rotation and continuous corn.
- crop
Character string that for the crop planted with separate values for corn in rotation and continuous corn; values are A (alfalfa), C (corn), CC (continuous corn), H (hay), O (oats), or S (soybean).
- variety
Character string with free text of the crop variety name.
- all_corn
A true or false variable indicating whether this was a year when corn was planted in all plots.
- yield_bush
Integer value of yeilds for all crops except hay in bushels/acre.
- yield_ton
Integer value of yeild of hay in tons/acre.
- treated
A true or false variable indicating whether or not this plot was treated that year.
- treatment
Character string that describes the treatment plan for this plot; values are none, MLrP, MLbP, 0LNsPK, MLrPNsPK, LNPK, LHNPK, or MLP.
- manure
An integer for the specific amount of manure applied to this plot this year in lbs/acre.
- lime
An integer for the specific amount of lime applied to this plot this year in tons/acre
- nit
An integer for the specific amount of nitrogen applied to this plot this year in lbs/acre.
- p205
An integer for the specific amount of phosphorus (on an oxide basis) applied to this plot this year in lbs/acre.
- k20
An integer for the specific amount of potassium (on an oxide basis) applied to this plot this year in lbs/acre.
- stover
An integer for the amount of stover or straw removed in tons/acre.
- population
An integer for the number of plants based on counts from hand harvesting in plants/acre.
- plant_date
Date the crop was planted in MM/DD/YYYY format.
- plant_day
An integer that indicates the nth day in the year that the crop was planted.
- soil_sample
A true or false variable that indicates whether there is at least one soil sample for this plot and year.
- damage
Character string with free text describing known sources of significant damage to crops that year.
- notes
Character string with free text for any notes that do not fit in other fields.
Source
Published dataset in the Illinios Data Bank doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-7865141_V1