Back to the future

(Rothamsted Research) Modern farming owes much to long-standing research that continues to pump out results and to provide valuable perspectives to guide the future of agricultural science, achievements that will be celebrated at a three-day international conference in May. The Future of Long-Term Experiments in Agricultural Science, from 21-23 May, is being organized by the Association of Applied Biologists at Rothamsted Conference Centre to mark the 175th anniversary of the start of scientific