BBCNEWS Business July 3, 2024
It has been the wettest 18 months on record since 1836, one of the wettest winters in decades that many farmers can remember. It has had a huge impact on the ability to grow crops and it has been quite sudden. In 2022 we were talking about extreme heat and drought and farmers not being able to get crops out of the ground because it was baked too hard. This winter they have not been able to get them in the ground because it has been too wet, waterlogged and soft, basically. That means that the amount of wheat and winter barley, oilseed rape were likely to harvest this year will be down a third,...