Category Archives: Climate Change

The farmers have had more than the usual struggles to cope with in the past 18 months. The unusual weather conditions, which some of us would see as part of climate change but others, still living in denial, see as … Continue reading →

Maybe it takes a crisis to motivate humans. Our modern Welfare State was planned during the Second World War and the Marshall Plan was a response to Europe in ruins. Are there, however, leaders today capable of carrying through the … Continue reading →

30 March 2013 High fell farmers are suffering due to the weather, disease and crop failure. The very wet weather over the last year has led to depleted soils and poor crops. Many incomes do not exceed £8,000 pa, hardly … Continue reading →

2012 was England’s wettest year on record, and the UK’s second wettest, and yet it began with one of the worst droughts for decades. As if this had not given farmers enough difficulty, 2013 has so far been cold and … Continue reading →

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs estimates current total income for hill grazing livestock farmers is a mere £14,000 – down 53% on last year. Pig farming income is down 51% and dairy 44%. Lamb and sheep losses … Continue reading →