Droughts and rising costs due to inflation will “force people out of farming”, and workers need to “talk to each other” if struggling, farmers have said.
British farmers have detailed the difficulties caused by drought, which has forced an earlier harvest and will leave them struggling to store and sell goods.
He told the PA news agency: “I can understand why people would , and I can understand that there are a lot of barriers out there that make it difficult to look positively on the future.“The reality is that in the high temperatures and the persistently dry conditions, we just haven’t been able to keep up with demand.
Due to the rising numbers of farmers leaving the industry, the Government has offered the Lump Sum Exit Scheme which will provide a payment to help them. Matt Styles, 27, from Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, runs a farm with his wife and has been struggling with feeling low due to the increasingly difficult conditions.Because he is unable to live off his farm earnings alone, Mr Styles also undertakes contracting work on other farms.
“Sometimes I think the only other person that could really understand what it’s like is another farmer, because I think a lot of us do go through the same stuff, or similar experiences, and sometimes it’s nice to chat about those things. Hannah Buisman, 24, from Welwyn, Hertfordshire, works alongside her family on their farm, where they have traditionally grown cereals, oats, wheat, barley and beans but have diversified into growing vines.
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