Gli agricoltori britannici perdono 800 milioni di sterline dopo che il caldo e la siccità hanno causato uno dei peggiori raccolti mai registrati
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/record-heat-drought-2025-cost-uk-arable-farmers-estimated-800m-climate-crisis-grain-harvest
di F0urLeafCl0ver
7 commenti
Unsurprisingly when you change the climate bad things happen.
given all the farmers who used to tell us to vote tory, and are now telling us to vote reform, they get exactly what they deserve.
Climate change has happened, voting for parties who will simply pretend is not (and it never was) a viable option.
Only strong Government, who can do more than pretend its not still 1950 will help them.
for balance I will say, there are farmers out there who are smart people and who want to plant crops that can grow, and will sell. Whilst smart farmers will be well researched they need a public who will buy those products. a Government stuck in 1950 will not lead to a general public open to that change.
They could save some money in fuel bills by not driving their tractors to London every 5 minutes to whinge about anything and everything
Don’t worry we’re going to get rid of the problem of poor harvests by paving over all the good farmland to build more houses.
God the braindead comments are obscene here. We are so detached from where our food comes from we have people clapping the demise of those providers
Out of 4 current comments 3 are categorically “Derogatory” verbal attacks on “Farmers”.
Instead of this peculiar behaviour of setting up peer group negative perception of Farmers as a group or industry in the UK, some basic facts on total Revenue Loss:
* Wheat yields for example are about half average expected yields
* Commodity prices in wheat have not correspondingly risen thus offsetting the deficit volume sold
* Higher input prices eg fuel, fertilizer
* Regulatory and Policy contribution eg BPS loss and Governmsnt mishandling of SFI
* Regulatory also reduces optionality for farmers for local supply and price setting
* Both floods previous years and drought this year all impact the above
Conclusions:
1. Bad harvests are a strong indication of climate change, regionally UK and globally.
2. This means food will become a significant priority in the coming years – take note!
3. Government policy appears to be actively ANTAGONISTIC the UK farming industry via a combination of hostile policy, legislation during more extreme times (IHT, BPS, SFI, lower budget in total and more)
4. Consumers need to consider: Buy local, spend more on buying and supporting local British produce.
I feel sorry for those who keep lambasting farmers for holding (or, at least, *working*) rich assets.
I s’pose we could always import more and really pay for our food? Or perhaps the plan is to revert to subsistence farming, with a growing awareness of seasonality?
We should be more circumspect.