‘Every day it doesn’t rain, the pressure mounts’
David Barton's fields on his farm in Gloucestershire should be green and full of grazing cattle.Instead the grass has turned yellow, the land is bone-dry, and many of the crops that feed his cows have died."Every day that it doesn't rain, every day that it's hot and dry, the pressure mounts," he says.As England and Wales enter a heatwave forecast to last until Sunday, these are challenging times for farmers.Experts warn that the extreme weather like the hot and dry conditions in July will inevitably lead to smaller harvests in the UK. This in turn will make the food we buy in the supermarkets even more expensive.David, aged 54, is the third generation of his family to work on his farm in Cirencester. He's now resorted to feeding his cattle the food reserved for winter."This is fast approac...
