Inventory of the Century Experiment/Long Term Research on Agricultural Sustainability (LTRAS) Project Records
AR-110
Liz Phillips
University of California, Davis. UC Davis Library, University Archives
2017
1st Floor, Shields Library, University of California
100 North West Quad
Davis, CA
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
URL: https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/special-collections/
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis. UC Davis Library, University Archives
Title: Century Experiment/Long Term Research on Agricultural Sustainability (LTRAS) Project Records
creator:
Long Term
Research on Agricultural Systems Project
Identifier/Call Number: AR-110
Physical Description:
4.4 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1981-2015
Abstract: The Century Experiement, a project of the UC Davis
Agricultural Sustainability Institute, is a 100-year study measuring long-term impacts of crop rotation, farming systems,
and
inputs of water and nutrients on agricultural sustainability. The experiment is based at the Russell Ranch Sustainable
Agriculture Facility in Davis, California. At its founding in 1993, the Century Experiment was named the Long Term Research
on Agricultural Systems (LTRAS) project. The collection includes Century Experiment/LTRAS program materials including
experimental design documentation, data, laboratory notebooks, maps, photographs, slides, and reports.
Physical Location: Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections,
as many are stored offsite.
Administrative History
The Century Experiement, a project of the UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute, is a 100-year study measuring
the long-term impacts of crop rotation, farming systems, and inputs of water, nitrogen, carbon and other elements on
agricultural sustainability. The experiment's seventy-two test plots are located at the Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture
Facility in Davis, California. At its founding in 1993, the Century Experiment was named the Long Term Research on
Agricultural Systems (LTRAS) project, later changing its name to the Long Term Research on Agricultural Sustainability
project.
Sources:
The Century Experiment, http://asi.ucdavis.edu/programs/rr/about/century-experiment. Last accessed 14 July 2017.
About Russell Ranch, http://asi.ucdavis.edu/programs/rr. Last accessed 14 July 2017.
Content Description
The collection includes Century Experiment/LTRAS program materials including experimental design documentation, data,
laboratory notebooks, maps, photographs, slides, and reports.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Liz Phillips with help from student assistant Robyn Lam.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Century Experiment/Long Term Research on Agricultural Sustainability (LTRAS) Project Records,
AR-110, Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.
Publication Rights
All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is
not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sustainability
Agriculture -- California
UC Davis Agricultural
Sustainability Institute -- Archives
Russell Ranch --
Archives
Long Term Research on
Agricultural Systems Project -- Archives
Box 1
Box 1
Scope and Contents
Not listed at this time
Box 2
Box 2
Scope and Contents
Not listed at this time.
Box 3, Folder
2
Listening Session CD
2004
Box 3, Folder
4
Experiments before 1993: Compost/Manure Study: DCB
1990-1993
Box 3, Folder
5
Experiments before 1993: Corn Data
1991
Box 3, Folder
6
Experiments before 1993: Berseem Clover/ Rye Grass(N): B.Williams
1991-1992
Box 3, Folder
7
Experiments before 1993: 1986-1987 Wheat Data Sheets, Maps, Etc.
1986-1987
Box 3, Folder
10
Center for Integrated Farming Systems (CIFS)
2004-2005
Box 3, Folder
11
Center for Integrated Farming Systems (CIFS)
2004-2005
Box 3, Folder
12
Experimental Design, Sample Schematics: Trt. changes, Sample, Analysis, etc. Protocols
1993
Box 3, Folder
13
Experimental Design, Sample Schematics: LTRAS Charter
1998
Box 3, Folder
14
Experimental Design, Sample Schematics: Review of LTRAS
27 May 2002
Box 3, Folder
15
Experimental Design, Sample Schematics: SAFS Proposal
2003
Box 3, Folder
16
Experimental Design, Sample Schematics: The design of LTRAS and data analysis
undated
Box 3, Folder
17
Experimental Design, Sample Schematics: LTRAS
undated
Box 3, Folder
18
Experimental Design, Sample Schematics: Twelve Year LTRAS Assessment and Planning meeting
undated
Box 3, Folder
19
Experimental Design, Sample Schematics: SAFS Pow Wow Executive Summary
November 2005
Box 3, Folder
20
Experimental Design, Sample Schematics: LTRAS Planning 1981-1991
1989-1991
Box 3, Folder
21
RR/SAFS/LTRAS Publications
1993-2008
Box 3, Folder
22
Baseline Sudan Planting
undated
Box 3, Folder
23
Reduced Till Experiment- SAFS (1)
1993-2007
Box 3, Folder
24
Reduced Till Experiment- SAFS (2)
1993-2007
Box 3, Folder
25
Harvest Contracts/History
1996-2006
Box 3, Folder
26
Facilities, Equipment
1992-2008
Box 3, Folder
27
Facilities, Equipment: Lab Ovens PES 1315
2002
Box 3, folder
28
Facilities, Equipment: LTRAS John Deere folder
2001-2002
Box 3, Folder
29
Budgetary reports
1991-2004
Box 4, Folder
1
RR Century Experiment Data
1993-1994
Box 4, Folder
2
RR Century Experiment Data
1995
Box 4, Folder
3
RR Century Experiment Data
1996
Box 4, Folder
4
RR Century Experiment Data
1997
Box 4, Folder
5
RR Century Experiment Data
1998
Box 4, Folder
6
RR Century Experiment Data
1999
Box 4, Folder
7
RR Century Experiment Data
2000
Box 4, Folder
8
RR Century Experiment Data
2001
Box 4, Folder
9
RR Century Experiment Data
2002
Box 4, Folder
10
RR Century Experiment Data
2003
Box 4, Folder
11
RR Century Experiment Data
2004
Box 4, Folder
12
RR Century Experiment Data
2005
Box 4, Folder
13
RR Century Experiment Data
2006
Box 4, Folder
14
RR Century Experiment Data
2007
Box 4, Folder
15
RR Century Experiment Data
2008
Box 4, Folder
16
RR Century Experiment Data
2009
Box 4, Folder
17
RR Century Experiment Data
2010
Box 4, Folder
18
RR Century Experiment Data
2011
Box 4, Folder
19
RR Century Experiment Data
2012
Box 4, Folder
20
RR Century Experiment Data
2013
Box 4, Folder
21
RR Century Experiment Data
2014
Box 4, Folder
22
RR Century Experiment Data
2015
Box 4, Folder
23
RR Century Experiment Data
2016
Box 4, Folder
24
Ag-Recon maps
13 August 2000
Box 4, Folder
25
GC Survey Subplot Selection: LTRAS Data and Maps CD
11 September, 2003
Box 4, Folder
26
GC Survey Subplot Selection: LTRAS subplot template and printed maps of LTRAS plots
undated
Box 4, Folder
27
GC Survey Subplot Selection: Spring 2004 Remote Sensing Negative Digitized Images
undated
Scope and Contents
includes 2CD-Rs
Box 4, Folder
28
"LTRAS after heavy rains" photographs and negatives
12 January 1995
Box 4, Folder
29
Remote Sensing: LTRAS aerial images (two-color and infrared)
April 2003
Box 4, Folder
30
Remote Sensing: Ag-Recon Aerial Imagery CD
22 June 2003
Box 4, Folder
31
Remote Screening: Ag-Recon Report and negative
22 June 2003
Box 4, Folder
32
Negative slides from unnamed black binder
undated
Box 4, Folder
33
Ag-Recon maps and positive color slides from unnamed green binder
1993-2001
Box 4, Folder
34
Positive color slides from unnamed green binder
1995
Box 5, Folder
1
Brown Laboratory Notebook: David Mata
14 October 1993
Box 5, Folder
2
Black Laboratory Notebook: Michelle Akerman
1997-1998
Box 5, Folder
3
Black and Maroon Laboratory Notebook: Daryl Lee
1996
Box 5, Folder
4
Composition Book (unknown author)
May 1993
Box 5, Folder
5
Black and Maroon Laboratory Notebook (unknown author)
1994
Box 5, Folder
6
Black and Maroon Laboratory Notebook: Elizabeth Martini
2000
Box 5, Folder
7
Black and Maroon Laboratory Notebook (unknown author)
1997
Box 5, Folder
8
Brown Laboratory Notebook: Akbar Abshahi Yazdi
1993
Box 5, Folder
9
Black Laboratory Notebook: Elizabeth Martini
1998
Box 5, Folder
10
Blue notebook "Ammonia Analyzer"
1995
Box 5, Folder
11
Red Laboratory Notebook, Carlo-Erba Log Notations, Lab 170, Hunt Hall
1996-1997
Box 5, Folder
12
Evaluation of Conservation tillage and Cover Crop Systems for Organic Processing Tomato Production-
Nicholaus M. Madden
2002
Box 5, Folder
13
Black and Maroon Laboratory Notebook: Michelle Akerman "Book 4"
29 May 1997- 30 November 1999
Box AR Folio 1
Century Experiment Plot Diagram
undated