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Podcast: The Tillage Edge
Episode: The PRCD and the Challenges of Proposed Pesticide Reductions of 50%
Description: Gordon Rennick, PRCD, for the Department of Agriculture and Marine joined Michael Hennessy on the Tillage Edge podcast this week.Â
Gordon explained that PRCD stands for the Pesticide Registration and Control Division of the Department of Agriculture and the unit has a wide range of roles from registering pesticides, residue testing, inspecting retail and farmers along with a host of other diverse work.Â
Gordon is involved with the registration of plant protection products (PPP) in Ireland and he mentioned the decrease of new actives coming up for registration from 30-40 per year, 20 years ago, to only 1-2 per year in mo...