Farming Today This Week 

Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Farming Today

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Science & Nature: Nature & Environment

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

BBC Radio 4 LW

Farming Today: 15/06/19: Crop protection

15/06/19: Crop protection

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 15/06/19: Crop protection

Charlotte Smith and guests discuss how farmers protect crops from diseases and pests.

Charlotte Smith is joined by Liz Bowles from The Soil Association, farmer John Cherry and Sarah Mukherjee from the Crop Protection Association to discuss crop protection.

Charlotte Smith and guests discuss how farmers can best protect their crops from pests and diseases.  She's joined by Liz Bowles, Associate Director of Farming and Land Use at The Soil Association, arable and beef farmer John Cherry who started the Groundswell Conference about No-till farming, and Sarah Mukherjee, Chief Executive of the Crop Protection Association.  Together they consider what constitutes crop protection, the use of the herbicide Glyphosate, the impact of the ban of the insecticide Neonicotinoids and what the alternatives are to protect Oil Seed Rape, and what the Government should do with pesticide regulation after the UK leaves the European Union. 

Producer: Toby Field

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Farming Today

15/06/19: Crop protection

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4