Cracked soils and scorching heat push UK farms to rethink resilience
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.
