Farmers say wet weather is having deadly impact on lambing season

With one of the wettest winters on record in Wales, March and April have so far seen little let up, leaving farmers unable to plant crops and put livestock outside.

"It won't go in for at least another month or six weeks at this rate. It's going to take a long time to dry before we can get on the ground and spread muck, and then plough it. "When they're born they're only 24 or 48 hours old, and then they moved out. There's no way you could keep all the ewes in with all the lambs.The effects of climate change have been blamed for the increased rainfall, making 2023 one of the wettest years since records began.Credit: ITV Wales

She wants more help from the Welsh Government in reaching solutions to the climate crisis. "We're going to have to have help because producing food for the nation is a collective responsibility.

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