Broom's Barn Experimental Station
"Brooms barn today" brooms barn is still an active farm and still has some research trials, there are less staff than there used to be in this facility, due to there being no more scientists. Broom's Barn Experimental Station is a research institute in Suffolk, United Kingdom. The current farm manager is Mark Gardner History. 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 for unknown reasons by the director of the farm, and samples of the seed were left there, as well as all of the lab equipment after scientists had to leave. Structure. It is situated just south of the A14. In the early 2000s, the site employed around 70 people. It researched sugar beet. Until 1967, the Higham railway station served the site.