Forty years ago in 1986, the July edition of the magazine was replete with informative articles and top notch science.
Brendan Burns provided a farm walk report on a series of farm walks facilitated by Monaghan Mushrooms.
As he said, no report is as good as the actual farm walk with specific crops under scrutiny. However it was pretty informative, and still worth a read forty years on!
There was a report by Mairead Duffin on growing in the Netherlands. And there was a review of a Kinsealy Research Centre report by Liam Staunton.
Along with copious Reen Rover notes - it was a bumper edition..
