Failed wheat and hungry cows: farmers count the cost of a wet winter

But at least there is some wheat growing. The other half of the field has tiny shoots of beans, which will eventually grow into much cheaper cattle feed. Here the winter wheat, sown in autumn 2023, drowned under the long winter rains."You sort of watch it die," Mr Wilkins reflects, ruefully."You put so much effort into planting it, and the money you spend, and then it just fades away. And you have to start again,…