Glorious weather is finally drying out waterlogged fields in time for farmers to plant crops to avoid a summer food shortage.
Britain was as hot as 17C Australia today as a 500-mile wide “Portuguese pulse” of warm air sweeps across the country. Forecasters said the “mini-heatwave” could last for another eight days and expected more sun with highs of 14C today.
Farmers were worried another stormy month like February would have finished many rural farms off altogether and leave the country short of home-grown food this summer.
Gavin Lane had to write off 40 hectares of crops after his farm near King’s Lynn, Norfolk, was hit hard by Storm Ciara. But he said that the dry weather that started on Tuesday had spared many farmers from going under.
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