Fifty years of the Journal of Agricultural Engineering

The Journal of Agricultural Engineering (JAE) celebrates with this issue the publication of its fiftieth volume. The Journal was founded in 1969, on the initiative of the Italian Society of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA) to publish the results of scientific and experimental acquisitions of the sector, noted the serious lack of adequate editorial venues for what was then called Génie Rural. Initially published in Italian under the name of Rivista di Ingegneria Agraria by the publisher Edagricole, it was one of the first sector journals in Europe and since 1970 it has always followed an annual periodicity, with each volume consisting of four issues printed quarterly, for a total of almost 1200 scientific papers published so far.