Rain in U.K. Said by Union to Cost Farmers $2.1 Billion in 2012
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Excess rainfall that cut crop yields across the U.K. and rising feed prices cost farmers about 1.3 billion pounds ($2.1 billion) in 2012, the National Farmers Union said.
June to August was the rainiest in the U.K. in a century, while England, the country’s biggest wheat-growing area, capped its wettest year on record in 2012, according to the Met Office, the national weather forecaster. The U.K., the European Union’s third-largest wheat grower, harvested 13.26 million metric tons of the grain in 2012, down 13 percent from 2011, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says.