# The Tillage Podcast - Crop protection chat on bans, renewals and politics versus science

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Podcast: [Irish Farmers Journal podcasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/irish-farmers-journal-podcasts-201677)
Published: 2026-06-04T14:40:00+00:00
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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.

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