© Ben Birchall/PAAccording to the Met Office, 1,695.9mm of rain fell from October 2022 to March 2024, the highest amount recorded for any 18-month period in England... since at least 1836.
Farmers have been dealing with
record-breaking rainfall over at least the past year, meaning food produced in Britain has fallen drastically.
Livestock and crops have been affected as
fields have been submerged since last autumn on account of it being an exceptionally wet 18 months.
According to the Met Office,
1,695.9mm of rain fell from October 2022 to March 2024,
the highest amount record for any 18-month period in England.
Here, British farmers and growers tell us how they have handled the inclement weather conditions and what the heavy rainfall means for their immediate futures.
'We are going to have an appalling harvest this year'Our farm is mainly arable so it's crops that we grow. The constraints that we are facing this year means
we are going to have an appalling harvest. We've hardly got any crops in the ground at all, I've only managed to get 30 hectares [74 acres] of my 170 hectares planted and we have 110 hectares of "croppable" land.
That's less than a third.
Comment: Update April 17
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