People are being urged to take extra care to avoid causing fires in the countryside during hot weather.
Andy Barr, who owns an 800-acre farm in Lenham, Kent, had a 50-acre field of barley destroyed by a fire last Saturday.Media caption,"You spend a year growing it and you really like to see the fruits of your labour this time of year. So that was very disappointing," he said.
Mr Barr was also grateful to the firefighters and neighbours who helped stop the fire spreading further by ploughing crops that had not yet gone up in flames to make a fire break. He said this could lead to shortages of some products on shop shelves in the short term and increased prices for customers.On his own farm in Sussex, Mr Exwood said his maize was struggling due to the lack of rain and he expected a "dramatically reduced yield", which could cost him tens of thousands of pounds.Hannah Buisman, who works on her parents' farm near St Albans in Hertfordshire, said they had also seen reduced yields of hay and cereal crops due to the heat.
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