Video transcript: climate change & lifestyle – Malcolm2
Flooding affects the farm

It has affected the way our low lying fields, we have been affected by this phenomenon of increased flooding, by and large, and we are seeing more and more flooding in the average winter.  It affects us in that we can no longer graze, in our particular case, our grass fields, with certainty.  If we do, then we have got to be much more on our guard to rescue or to remove sheep and cattle from low lying ground than ever we had to 10, 15, 20 years ago.
I think farmers are very good at reacting and adapting.  You are not a very good farmer if you can’t adapt quickly to a weather situation.  In our own particular case, we’ve had to learn that on some fields we can graze sheep or we can’t graze sheep where we used to easily through the winter.  There are one or two fields here where we can’t grow wheat during the winter period where we used to, because the risk of flooding and washing away that crop is so much greater now because of flash flooding – quick flooding.