Farmers warn ‘crisis is building’ as record rainfall drastically reduces UK food production. According to the Met Office, 1,695.9mm of rain fell from October 2022 to March 2024, the highest amount for any 18-month period in England in recorded history.

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1. Record-breaking rain in recent months has drastically reduced the amount of food produced in the UK, farming groups have said.

   Livestock and crops have been affected as fields have been submerged since last autumn.

   It has been an exceptionally wet 18 months. According to the Met Office, 1,695.9mm of rain fell from October 2022 to March 2024, the highest amount for any 18-month period in England in recorded history. The Met Office started collecting data in 1836.

2. Same farmers throwing fits about UK trying to pass laws to combat climate change, huh?

3. Time to plant rice