As and can do and dogs ever mix First though the co-operative party is one hundred years old this month and this weekend holds its centenary conference in London it was created partly to help farmers struggling after the First World War and co-ops remain a big part of agriculture half the U.K. Farmers are members of agricultural crops and Farmer controlled businesses have a turnover of nearly six billion pounds a year well there are about four hundred farm co-ops across the country both large and small simple Russkies been to a fifty acre co-operative farm run by Stroud community agriculture in costa to find out more. This is a herd of traditional Herefords that we keep here on the farm they're here for producing beef customers. And also the manure the from the winter is used to make compost to feed the vege our customers own the business but they also buy the vegetables from us and what about the farmers that surround your fifty acres when you first pitched up and said were a co-operative What did they think I think they were probably pretty skeptical really just a bunch of strategies with another very Stroud type idea but I think we're still slowly gaining some sort of. You know respect from the neighbors I hope. Well David Drew here is the labor and co-operative party men the first draft David you've got to give us a bit of a history of the co-operative party some people listening might remember it from their history lessons you know having its roots in the mid nineteenth century with the rock style pioneers but one hundred years ago this month the party was established so why did it start because people believe in corporation and it was there was a need for a political voice. And. When the co-operative party started a hundred years ago it was at the time of the Russian Revolution of course but here it was a quieter revolution wasn't it when the party was formed Yeah I mean we don't believe in revolution we believe in evolution the fact that as you say going back to the Pioneers has always been a strong corporative within the U.K. And it was just seen as very important that we had the way in which we demonstrated within parliament and within councils so that the co-operative ideal could be carried forward. To go and have a close look at those votes. Do we simply exist pick up. The picture you really feel for meat she produces two litters a Piglet's a year but also a great way of up cycling all the great out fed. Well some We've come down to the vegetable lot. We've got leaks we've got kale we've got cabbage we've got beetroot. The squash what about the future of this type of co-operative we're talking about a hundred years of the co-operative party which of course helped to push forward the food movement really in this country what do you. I think about the future of cooperatives and I think farms like this can only become more important with the sort of uncertainties in the future with with Brett sitting with subsidies and the sort of volatility of prices and I don't know if it will ever take over the world but it's chipping away at one corner of of the market symbol Rusko in Strout New figures show the U.K.'s rate yields are up despite a ban on the new nicked annoyed pesticides which some farmers say are vital for successful growth Well the Provisional figures from Defra share that although just under three percent less area was planted with the crop higher yields an average three point nine tons per head to mean a twenty six percent increase year on year new nicotine oids are chemicals which are put on to seat so the resulting plants a toxic to pests but they've been blamed for problems with bees and banned across Europe. From the invertebrates charity bug life says the figures show farmers can manage without them there was a lot of noise in the beginning about fear is that it's a great wouldn't be a viable crop it quite clearly is a viable crop in fact there's been some research done in Finland which is CERN that mimics most may be responsible for a decline in yields there because of the damage they've done to the populations of pollinators the wild beast in Finland so there might have been some some quite hard intangible things going on with me and ignores the mushing damaging agricultural ecosystems and farmers they will say in some areas they were still allowed to use new nicks and in other areas they are relying on old chemistry which is effective but not very good for the environment they did have a delegation for one year but there was no evidence for that delegation that actually the name acknowledged by helping the crop the yields in the areas where they were used worked improved and we've had a problem actually with the old chemistry of the reef Royds of increasing resistance and it's probably the increasing resistance which is the problem the farmers having at the moment. Restaurant. Stoppers wants the starters to go great guns well guy Smith is an Arab oil farmer and vice president of the National Farmers Union you don't need these chemicals and these figures prove it Matt Schaub low is looking a year old year old is primarily driven by whether we had good weather for growing Aussie grape this year growing O.C. Grape ease less wild boar with out these insecticides but it is not impossible but as was pointed out in the report farmers are now becoming more dependent on the par Reith Royd insecticides and we know for a fact that resistance to those by resource is increasing we suggest in the future it will get even more difficult but other crops are available farmers can vote with their feet and simply grow something else that's very true or we could just grow nothing and import needs from other parts the world where there is no political appetite to ban the end of cotton odds is that a sensible way to run agriculture in the country but I think farmers recognise that they are going to have to get used to growing Aussie right across without me and the cosmos who are up for the challenge but I have no doubt in my mind as a practical farmer that growing old is less viable without these insecticides guy Smith from the N.F.U. Now Brad got park in Leicestershire is famous for a nine day Queen and deer it's been an enclosed Dear Park since the thirteenth century and for the past eighty nine years it's also been a country park and a very popular place to walk the dog where all this week we've been looking at the business of deer and the dog issue can't be ignored bred good still produces venison from the park and the relationship between the public their dogs and the deer reached crisis point a couple of years ago however spent Jackson found out when he spoke to PETA tildes Lee the director of the Brett Park Trust they seem to a found an amicable solution. We've just crossed from the public part of private into what we call the to sanctuaries we leave in the noise of the general public children dogs behind us it's just us the wind in the did this could be the Highlands of Scotland This is what makes it so special because it's just not what people think about when you talk about Leicestershire people think about that classic patchwork pattern of Lowell and fields and this is yes as you say eight hundred acres of glorious wide open space and it's been here for a long time actually for a very specific purpose well the park has been here since twelve forty one we know that CA illustration reference today a park being here and it's been a public parks and snow one hundred twenty eight how do you maintain the deer park with the number of people that are in place maintaining the deer herd and trying to avoid conflict with people people bring dogs but did on the whole just don't like disturbance anyway to try and give an impression of how important it is to feed for less chief or to go think about Richmond Park how important it is to the people of southwest London it's absolutely key to the local community. But the local communities don't always understand there is a whole life that goes on here that's not just concerned with them walking their dog now that relationship between the public dogs toddlers scooters has has rubbed along OK for quite a long time but in the last year or two that relationship between the dogs and the deer became critical we had a couple of bad years probably two and three years ago where we lost upwards of thirty red cards over over the course of the winter and trying to get the message across to people because you stop somebody who's delts been chased and then you always hear oh he doesn't mean any harm he's only playing and I'm sure farmers hear this with dogs worrying sheep and cattle and trying to get the message across it's not the fact they catch them it's the chasing that does the damage is the stress that causes the animal it's the disturbance that is the killer What did you do there because it's a difficult one you can't just slam a door shut because you're not allowed to do that this technically belongs to the people of Leicestershire Well we are a public park and we're also traversed by public rights of way so yes just stopping dogs altogether wasn't an issue and we worked very closely with our local authorities bar accounts and took advantage of what's now called a public space protection order they used to be known as Dole control orders so the whole park is now designated as a place where dogs have to be kept under control part of the park is designated as a place where dogs have to be on lead at all times and we can enforce that with a fixed penalty notice that our staff can now issued. I have to say the deterrent effect of having the sixth in place has done the job but we haven't yet touchwood had to issue a single ticket or just as we were finishing the interview in fact Peter Peter spotted a gentleman with his dog awfully What's your name first of all Lee and the same dog . Peters can't explain to you why you got to keep buster on a lead and you don't seem upset by that. One has given me an alternative I can go the other side of the wall and he doesn't have to be on a lead. An alternative I'm perfectly happy. LEE And Buster in the lovely broad get Park what's being described as a significant agreement has been signed between the E.U. And the U.K. On post breaks it import quotas Now these are international agreements which decide how much of a product can come into Europe before high tariffs are put on it well the U.K. And A you have agreed to split the current amounts based on actual imports over the past few years so for example in the case of New Zealand lamb based on trade volumes from twenty fourteen to sixteen forty eight percent would go to the U.K. And fifty two percent would go to Europe and the overall amount allowed into both markets no or low tariff doesn't increase this hasn't gone down well with international trade partners the USA is leading a coalition of countries objecting Well I spoke to our B.K. Chief reporter at the farmers' Guardian and asked how significant this is it is significant progress it shows that the BRICS it talks they're actually making Let's put the progress on technical detail but actually it's going to run into a lot of problems when it's negotiated at the B.T.O. There's already been seven big agricultural exporters who are contesting this quite strongly because we're talking about this is if it's a done deal but once it goes to the World Trade Organization with big countries as you say like the USA already objecting it won't be a done deal will it no not at all and the US Canada New Zealand Brazil Argentina talent in Uruguay I believe they've all complained and what they're saying is this isn't a rectification which is what the U.K. And the E.U.'s say and so a correction which requires a little negotiation but it's actually a modification which requires much more negotiation and what they're saying is at the moment exporters can compensate for local. Demand by sending produce to other countries in the E.U. They won't be able to do that if the quote is a split along the lines that the U.K. And the E.U. Propose it so they're saying they're going to be left worse off from the farmers point of view what would be the best succulents for British from I think the best estimate would probably be something along the lines of what the U.K. And the E.U. Are proposing that model is based on historical trade volumes the problem is if the quote is do you end up increasing we could end up with more sheep meat from Australia for example which would be a great disadvantage to our sheep farmers B.K. Annex.