@itvnews: A Cheshire farmer is warning of possible food shortages as the hot weather continues across the region. July was the dryest on record and so far we’re basking in one of the hottest summers. David Fryer is an arable farmer near Knutsford, who says the constant heat is a problem for food production. #farming #drought

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mrt12278
MrT :
Don’t worry there’s plenty of water at the golf courses 👌
2026-08-10 15:55:38
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dazzaar
داريو :
Less data centres and build more dams, simple analogy
2026-08-10 14:25:56
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wiredreams42
Woven tapestry :
All of this because of capitalism - we had a paradise to live on they wrecked it for money
2026-08-10 19:07:38
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hippyxnature
Mr.Hippy :
Start storing water from the heavy,wetter winters we going to start having and use that as irrigation. No??
2026-08-10 21:17:31
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kane81190
Kane :
Too wet prices go up too warm prices go up 😂
2026-08-10 14:50:29
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ibrent7
Brent :
We need to capture rain water better with a proper strategy/plan
2026-08-10 14:24:41
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sleepstarved.nerd
🌈SleepStarvedNerd💙 :
More data centers will obviously help produce more food 😑
2026-08-10 20:51:22
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charlottphelps
Charlotte Phelps :
I'm currently in Crete. a country that obviously doesn't get a lot of rain. yet everywhere is green. the orange, lemon, lime, olive groves all have irrigation pipes to make sure the crops stay watered. the problem with the UK is we don't adapt. we don't cope with any extremes of weather, be it rain, sun or snow. we just continue on with the same tired infrastructure, same old way of farming, planting at exactly the same time as say 100 years ago. we are not a dry country by any stretch of the imagination. just rubbish at living day to day
2026-08-10 15:14:18
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g.w0001
Gee :
be upping them prices won’t they
2026-08-10 20:15:38
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zshyegcvp
zshyegcvp :
It will only get dryer and dryer
2026-08-10 14:56:48
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thebikerboy76
Biker 🏍️💨 :
Build more storage tanks and reservoirs ffs
2026-08-10 14:50:02
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rizzlekicks444
R :
“Never thought 2026 would be drier” so there’s this thing called climate change and it’s kinda been happening for a while now, we knew this would happen 🤩
2026-08-10 20:54:25
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oliverhisc
Wölly :
I drive across Europe every summer, through countries like France and Italy that routinely see far less rainfall than we do in the UK, yet they still manage to grow crops. The difference is that they’ve adapted. You see huge irrigation systems and sprinklers watering entire fields because they know they can’t simply rely on rainfall. We’ve known for years that hotter, drier summers were becoming more likely in the UK, so why are we only acting surprised now that it’s happening? Agriculture has had to evolve throughout history, and it needs to evolve again. If farming practices rely heavily on weather patterns that are becoming less reliable, surely the answer has to be adapting those practices and investing in infrastructure, not just hoping next summer is wetter. I’m sorry, but you won’t get much sympathy from me for relying entirely on old practices that are becoming less feasible when we’ve had years of warning that the climate is changing.
2026-08-10 15:28:55
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idek8647
idek8647 :
I got some really bad news for your 2027 crops
2026-08-10 19:06:49
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thespookycoverups
Louise :
We have lots of rain up here in Scotland
2026-08-10 14:18:53
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investingdachsund
investing dachshund :
the water wars is just the beginning. the famine comes next
2026-08-10 19:17:08
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little_harv
little_harv :
What about water conservation here? Reservoirs are not maintained & no new infrastructure. We get rain, we need to hold it.
2026-08-10 15:32:03
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phiggos
phiggos :
So they just haven’t bothered listening to the scientists?
2026-08-10 19:04:19
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vandalvlogs1
Vandal :
is that a massive lake blurred out behind him?
2026-08-10 15:48:08
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politcalautism
PoliticalwithAutism :
dude. then you should he investing in a irrigation system
2026-08-10 18:57:34
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chevsy_pours
chevsy_pours :
Anglia water last year over 100million in total profits 75million to shareholders...and we get hit with hosepipe bans.
2026-08-10 17:17:32
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boyo22268
boyo :
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
2026-08-10 14:50:14
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adhd_on2wheels
adhd_on2wheels :
Well there’s me Sunday dinner gone 💔
2026-08-10 14:16:51
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