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Floods fuelled 19% drop in income from farming in England in 2023 (www.theguardian.com)
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Income from farming in England plummeted by 19% last year after floods meant harvesting many crops was impossible.

Farmers have called for more support from the government as the climate breaks down, meaning agricultural businesses are no longer able to count on mild UK weather and increasingly face drought and floods.

Farms also contributed less to England’s economy in 2023 at £10bn, a fall of £1bn or 8.7% compared with 2022. Farmers’ total income from agriculture in England was £4.5bn, down £1.1bn or 19.0% compared with 2022.

The drop in total income was driven by a large decrease in crop outputs, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Output, crops that came off farms to be sold, was £9.9bn, down £1.5bn or 13.1% compared with 2022. This was caused by a mixture of a crash in prices of crops such as wheat, combined with poor yields.

According to the Met Office, 1,695.9mm of rain fell in England from October 2022 to March 2024, more than in any 18-month period since the organisation started collecting comparable data in 1836. Scientists have said climate breakdown is likely to cause more intense periods of rain in the UK.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

But don't forget to still push diesel cars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Farmers have called for more support from the government as the climate breaks down, meaning agricultural businesses are no longer able to count on mild UK weather and increasingly face drought and floods.

The drop in total income was driven by a large decrease in crop outputs, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

According to the Met Office, 1,695.9mm of rain fell in England from October 2022 to March 2024, more than in any 18-month period since the organisation started collecting comparable data in 1836.

Farmers will soon no longer get a flat rate of government support, because the EU-derived basic payments scheme is being phased out.

Joe Evans, the vice-president of the Country Land and Business Association, said: “Farmers’ incomes are continuing to fall after decades of economic neglect.

This includes committing to an annual £4bn agricultural budget, reforming planning laws to help farmers diversify income, and proposals for ministerial-led, cross-departmental working groups to identify and remove barriers to growth.

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