URBANA, Ill. — When University of Illinois professor Manly Miles established the Morrow Plots in 1876, he couldn’t have imagined they would become the oldest continuous agricultural experiment in the Western Hemisphere. Nor could he imagine, more than a century before the dawn of the internet, that the plots’ data would be digitized and made available online to scientists, students and educators around the world.
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Illinois’ Morrow Plots data — dating back to 1876 — goes digital
Maia Rothman and Andrew Margenot recreate an early-
1900s photo from the Morrow Plots.





