As temperatures soar, ‘exceptionally serious’ drought imperils UK farmers
- Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom – Tom Pearson looks down at a crack in his own field, wide enough to plunge his fingers into.
- Beneath the stubble of a freshly combined oat crop on his Manor Farm in Caxton, near Cambridge, the ground has split, the soil having lost so much moisture that it has torn apart.
- A cover crop planted to shield the ground beneath the oats never really established before the early heat of this growing season arrived.
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- Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom – Tom Pearson looks down at a crack in his own field, wide enough to plunge his fingers into.
- Beneath the stubble of a freshly combined oat crop on his Manor Farm in Caxton, near Cambridge, the ground has split, the soil having lost so much moisture that it has torn apart.
- A cover crop planted to shield the ground beneath the oats never really established before the early heat of this growing season arrived.
Sources: Al Jazeera