joining me now is dan belcher, a farmer in melton mowbray.ow has the weather affected your farm this year? it's been very trying. spring and winter. we have just it's been very trying. spring and winter. we havejust finished lambing, the weather has been very wet and cold, we have managed to escape a lot of snow thankfully but i know some farmers further north and south who were heavily caught in the snow since three weeks ago. we are almost halfway through this season, it's too wet to get the cows out onto the ground. talk to a specifically about how heavy rain has affected you. we have quite a heavy clay here, almost flash flooding, the ground is waterlogged, the water cannot get anywhere, we had rain again last friday night and a couple of days dry will stop the animals are sitting in water with water on top of them, it causes pretty heavy losses. it is one to test us this time of year. you sent us some test us this time of year. you sent us some pictures which i think we can look at now. this gives us some sense of the kind of conditions

steeped in tradition melton mowbray has one of britain's oldest livestock markets what matters here is what the future may hold after. the concern is where we're going to take a big cage in terms of being. continent . that's going to continue. on as normal anything any good. for more than forty is the way britain or spawn taz been shaped by brussels when it leaves the european union it's inevitable the way the form of operate will have to change brics it means an end to the four billion dollars british farmers receive in a you subsidies membership of its common agricultural policy and leaving the single market which allows the free movement of people to produce. in lincolnshire there's a break in the weather allowing wratislaw probable kariya to plant strawberries every year eighty thousand seasonal workers are needed in the u.k. to harvest pruett plows and vegetables seventy five percent come from romania and bulgaria the rest a largely from other parts of the e.u. for our business and many businesses like ours if we can't have access to a labor force. that is generally from from east

steeped in tradition melton mowbray has one of britain's oldest livestock markets what matters here is what the future may hold after. the concern is where we're going to take a big cage and injuring. a. continent. that's going to continue. to grow anything any good. for more than forty is the way britain a spawn taz been shaped by brussels when it leaves the european union it's inevitable the way the form of operate will have to change brics it means an end to the four billion dollars british farmers receive in a you subsidies membership of its common agricultural policy and leaving the single market which allows the free movement of people to produce. in lincolnshire there's a break in the weather allowing wratislaw from bulgaria to plant strawberries every year eighty thousand seasonal workers are needed in the u.k. to harvest pruett ploughs and vegetables seventy five percent come from romania and bulgaria the rest are largely from other parts of the e.u. for our business and many businesses like ours if we can't have access to a labor force. that is generally from from eastern eur

here's an e—mail about horse cruelty, i work for a horse rescued 30 based near melton mowbray, for theng, victoria, this is a picture there is a very far north of england, northern ireland and scotland, you have got a day of bright spells, sunshine and showers. the rain is coming in courtesy of this cluster of fronts. they will move north and east was before clearing tonight, and elsewhere, showers coming in in a brisk westerly breeze. as we go through the morning, we continue with this rain, most of it won't be heavy, but as it pushes into the south west, also lincolnshire and yorkshire, lancashire, clipping southern parts of cumbria. but the showers persist across the north and west in between some dry and bright spells, with sunshine and temperatures up to 15. through this evening and overnight, we lose this rain from the east of england, behind it there will be clearer skies, and also some showers. a cold night for some of us in the north, but further south, the temperature is hanging on into double figures, and then tomorrow, we start off on a dry note with some sunshine again acr