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.

Wheat is half normal height, while England is seeing earliest ever harvest as farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops

Tom Bradshaw, president of the NFU, said production of oats this year has been 'very, very poor', and that wheat has been suffering similarly due to the prolonged drought