The long hot, dry summer across swathes of the country is having a severe impact on farmers, who say yields of staple crops like wheat and oats have plummeted, and they're being forced into an early harvest to salvage what they can.
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The long hot, dry summer across swathes of the country is having a severe impact on farmers, who say yields of staple crops like wheat and oats have plummeted, and they’re being forced into an early harvest to salvage what they can.
Some livestock farmers have also been forced to use their winter feed supplies because they can’t grow any fresh grass.
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Farmer, Livestock, Summer, UK, grass, heatwave
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