Half the harvest, twice the bills: how drought hit farms
The hottest summer on record, the longest drought, the worst harvest. West Country farmers are counting the cost of a "terrible summer", as one put it.
The wheat harvest on Charles Day's family farm in Gloucestershire was cut in half. "It's just soul-destroying," he says.
Dairy farmers had to rip open silage clamps stored up for the winter to feed the cattle as the grass failed. Sarah Godwin calculates it cost her family's Wiltshire farm "over £100,000". She says "it's shocking".
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