
British farmers say they are at ‘breaking point’ as drought and wildfires wreck harvests
Farmers face another brutal summer Martin Lines has spent this summer watching the weather do the arithmetic for him. The 54-year-old runs a 165-hectare arable farm in Cambridgeshire with his son, and after a fifth consecutive year of extreme conditions battering his cash flow, he is blunt about where the industry has ended up. “We’ve […]
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