Cracked soils and scorching heat push UK farms to rethink resilience
TL;DR
Record heat has left much of England in drought, with July the driest since 1836 and soils cracking as yields slump for a third year. Farmers are adopting regenerative practices and drought-tolerant crops, while calling for government investment in water storage and crop varieties, and for better climate-risk data to quantify and share the growing agricultural losses across the UK and EU.
Topics:worldenvironment#drought#environment#heatwave#regenerative-agriculture#soil-health#uk-farming
- As temperatures soar, ‘exceptionally serious’ drought imperils UK farmers Al Jazeera
- ‘Green and Pleasant’ No More, England Turns a Parched Brown The New York Times
- Britain’s scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help The Guardian
- Britain had one of its wettest winters on record. Now, its reservoirs are drying up The Independent
- UK drought map: all areas declared for August 2026 The Times
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