{"id":386826,"date":"2025-07-04T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=386826"},"modified":"2025-07-04T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:14:11","slug":"farmers-dont-like-bad-weather-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=386826","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Don\u2019t Like Bad Weather\u2013New Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Ian Magness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over 80% of farmers are concerned about the impact of climate change on their ability to make a living, as more than four fifths say extreme weather has hit their productivity.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New research [1] into farmer\u2019s attitudes to climate change and extreme weather reveals the extent to which farmers have been affected by recent extreme weather events, many made worse by climate change. In the past five years, 86% of farmers have been hit by extreme rainfall, 78% by drought and over a half by the impacts of heatwaves. Only 2% have not experienced extreme weather in some form. The research follows several recent attribution studies that draw a clear causal link between the increasingly extreme weather affecting farmers and climate change [2].
The market research of 300 farmers [3] across the UK was commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) from Grounded Research [4], specialists in gathering insights into questions about food and farming. When asked what impact recent extreme weather has had on their farms, 87% cited reduced productivity, 84% have witnessed a reduction in crop yields or livestock output.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/eciu.net\/media\/press-releases\/2025\/farmer-confidence-battered-by-climate-change-new-research<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ECIU, which is no more than a climate lobbyist outfit, has not published the survey results, presumably because they don\u2019t want people to see the actual questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But asking farmers if they have had poor harvests because of bad weather in recent years would have produced the same results at any stage in the last fifty years. Bad weather is not caused by climate change and there is no evidence weather in the last five years has been any worse than in the past.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I doubt too that farmers were not even asked about \u201cclimate change\u201d, not that any of them would be qualified to answer them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what about the actual farm data?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know that wheat harvests were hit last year by the wet autumn in the previous year. (We also know that autumn was a long way from being the wettest on record).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But bad years come along every so often and over the last two decades cereal yields are up and down, but have changed little over all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/cereal-and-oilseed-rape-production\/cereal-and-oilseed-production-in-the-united-kingdom-2024<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Going back further in time, cereal yields have been rising over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1961 to 2023<\/em><\/strong>
https:\/\/www.fao.org\/faostat\/en\/#compare<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A lot has been made of the fact that cereal output is lower now than in the 1980s. This however is because of a sharp drop in the area harvested during the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was due to a number of factors, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reforms, which shifted support from production-based subsidies to direct payments and introduced set-aside schemes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the record shows, there have always been bad harvests because of bad weather \u2013 too much rain, not enough rain, too cold, too hot, poor summers, poor autumns, poor springs. Indeed, it is very rare that farmers get a perfect year of weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But asking farmers if they have had poor harvests because of bad weather in recent years would have produced the same results at any stage in the last fifty years. Bad weather is not caused by climate change and there is no evidence weather in the last five years has been any worse than in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":386833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691836308,691827914,691818514,691819570],"class_list":["post-386826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-lobbyist","tag-energy-and-climate-intelligence-unit-eciu","tag-extreme-weather","tag-farmers","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2GF0fVoJawAACVF9.jpeg?fit=2048%2C1292&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1CD8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":275129,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=275129","url_meta":{"origin":386826,"position":0},"title":"Wrong, Vermont Public, Vermont\u2019s Weather Isn\u2019t Getting Worse","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/23\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent article on the news and commentary website Vermont Public, titled \u201cVermont farmers say they need more gov\u2019t help as climate change causes more extreme weather,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0claims that recent weather events which damaged crops and infrastructure in Vermont and elsewhere in the world are due to climate change. 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