"Who would win in a fight between mad monks and evil farmers?" This is the question researchers at East Fife University, Scotland, hope to answer. In 1994 they staged the first of five annual fights, the overall winners to be decided on a `best of five' basis. So far the farmers are 2-1 up, although their win in 1995 caused controversy when one farmer was later found to have used a hoe 2 inches longer than the regulation length of 4 feet 3 inches. Incidentally, the pitting of mad monks against evil farmers has been a traditional sport for centuries in some areas of Indonesia.