'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

Stuart Stone
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New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

England's warmest summer on record and its driest spring in more than a century have contributed to the country's second worst harvest since records began in 1984. That is according to new Department...

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