Britain's Farmers on the Brink: A Perfect Storm of Climate Change and Policy Failure The UK's heatwaves have brought forth warnings from farmers about the devastating impact of climate change on their livelihoods, but it's not just extreme weather that's to blame.
The perfect storm of escalating fuel and fertiliser prices, poor harvests, water shortages, and crippling bureaucracy is pushing many farming families to the edge.
A gradual erosion of direct financial support for farmers since Brexit has been exacerbated by the abrupt closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive in 2025.