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And the soil is waterlogged. One farmer in wiltshire says the losses are heart breaking. Our reporter liz beacon has the story. So this is our wheat thats been damaged by the wind and the rain, as you can see. For a farmer, august should be one of the busiest times of year, harvesting crops. This year, the Unrelenting Rain has put paid to that and everythings ground to a halt. Its pretty depressing and its pretty heartbreaking because weve gone to lot of effort to grow this wheat and, of course, weve spent all the costs on it, so were completely cost stacked now, and without selling it, we cant, you know, we cant reclaim those costs. So we are. Yeah, its actually a lot worse than i thought. Tom collins is a fourth generation farmer here on his family farm. He knows it can rain in august but, after one of the wettestjulys on record, he believes Climate Change is having huge consequences for his business. What we really want is a level price at a time like this. If you worked in a shop a

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