UK: Farmer Focus: Frost toll worse than first thought for Bill Davey

The -3C frost I mentioned in my previous article was far more damaging than we could have envisaged.

Our kale seed crop was ruined and consequently silaged - not quite what we had planned. But given the amount of vining peas that were wiped out, Heinz Watties offered us a late pea contract for the same field, which we drilled recently, so all is not lost.

We estimate that we have also lost about 30% of our early-sown winter barley, and we will not really know the full extent of damage to the grass seed until it has been harvested.

"Global Warming To Starve The World By 2100"

According to the researchers, worst is yet to come. Apart from the environmental hazards, Global warming will also lead to world wide poverty. The rapid warming will directly affect the crop yield in tropic and sub-tropic regions of the world, also being the poorest places in the world.