'Climate change is to blame': England suffers one of its worst harvests on record

Michael Holder
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Analysis of provisional data suggests overall volumes of key crops such as wheat, barley and oil seed rape were hit severely by record winter rainfall

England looks to have suffered its second worst harvest on record for cereal crops and oilseed rape after farmers were hammered by record rainfall last winter, prompting growing concern for Britain's food...

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