Weather woes add to Brexit blues for British farming

摘要

It's been a dry autumn and winter here in East Anglia and across much of the UK as well. On the one hand it has enabled autumn work on the land - drilling, potato lifting and sugar beet harvesting - to be accomplished in record time without too many problems. And, apart from a bit of mildew on winter barleys, autumn cereals look as well as they have ever done.