The Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences (Koninklijke Landbouwkundige Vereniging, KLV, founded in 1886) took the initiative to publish the Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science (NJAS) in 1953. In 2002, NJAS broadened its scope and was titled: NJAS–Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences. After 134 years, the general assembly of members decided to dissolve the Society in 2020. The end of the Society will not be the end of its journal. This paper presents a brief history of the Society and the journal, which exposes how the Society’s journal, originally strongly anchored in the plant sciences and agronomic research in the Netherlands, evolved towards an international journal with an increasingly strong interdisciplinary scope. The brief history signifies the crucial role of special issues as a collaborative endeavour and learning environment for making interdisciplinary approaches work.

荷兰皇家农业科学学会（Koninklijke Landbouwkundige Vereniging，KLV，成立于1886年）于1953年主动出版了《荷兰农业科学》（NJAS）。2002年，NJAS扩大了其范围，并被命名为：《 NJAS–Wageningen生命科学杂志》。134年后，会员大会决定在2020年解散该协会。该协会的终结将不会是其期刊的终结。本文介绍了该学会和该期刊的简要历史，揭示了该学会的期刊最初是如何牢固地扎根于荷兰的植物科学和农艺学研究的，如何发展成为具有日益强大的跨学科范围的国际期刊。简短的历史表明特殊问题在使跨学科方法起作用的协作努力和学习环境中的关键作用。