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Abstract: Prior to the 1939/45 war the advisory services available to the mushroom grower in this country were confined to commercial sundriesmen, such as spawn makers, and assistance provided by certain colleges, the chief of which was Wye College in Kent, where Dr. W. M. Ware and Mr. H. H. Glasscock were engaged in mushroom research on a limited scale. There was little or no co-operation between growers. During the war the picture changed very much for the worse: the Government, faced with total war and a serious food problem, set up War Agricultural Executive Committees with wide powers to help farmers and horticulturists to get the most out of their land by controlling labour, providing essential machinery, and co-ordinating the supplies so necessary to the grower. In the drastic re-organisation which took place severe limitations were placed upon the commercial mushroom grower. It was as a direct result of this policy and the war-time difficulties that growers got together and formed the Mushroom Growers' Association and the Mushroom Research Association in 1945. The latter was at that time a private company financed by 20 of the leading growers.
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