The Tillage Podcast - Crop protection chat on bans, renewals and politics versus science
From Irish Farmers Journal podcasts by Irish Farmers Journal
June 4, 2026 · 41 min
About this episode
The episode features a discussion with Olivier de Matos about crop protection, including bans, renewals, and the intersection of politics and science.
On this week’s podcast we chatted to Olivier de Matos who is the director general of CropLife Europe, an organisation that lobbies for improved crop protection in Europe for genetic techniques to pesticides and digital technologies. We have a fieldwork update and the grain trends and weather reports. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Guest: Olivier de Matos
Topics covered
- crop protection
- pesticides
- genetic techniques
- digital technologies
- grain trends
- weather reports
Keywords
- crop protection
- pesticides
- genetic techniques
- digital technologies
- grain trends
- weather reports
Sponsors
Bayer Crop Science
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CropLife Europe
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