This year had looked so promising for Britain's grain farmers. They were expecting a bumper crop, with prices to rival last year's, when best milling grain fetched £200 a tonne. Wheat was standing proud and tall in July and there had been optimum conditions for growth.
Now thousands of acres are flattened or blackened from the rain. Wheat being salvaged in some parts of the country is not prime milling quality and some farmers may lose a third of their expected earnings.
The situation is so bad that farmers are demanding urgent payment of subsidies to alleviate their plight.
Who do they think they are? Bankers?
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