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Great Britain, already a week suffering from heavy snowfalls and record low temperatures for March, faced with new the consequences of the weather are pestilence of livestock. As cities are gradually recovering from a blizzard, the situation in rural The terrain is still disastrous.
According to British farmers, a storm could bury in the snow thousands of sheep and cattle in Northern Ireland, Scotland, northeastern England where the meteorological the situation is still at a yellow level. Accurate the losses of farmers will be known only when the snow falls, heaped pastures, access roads to them and farms.
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The first blow to farms was a shutdown electricity supply in several regions provoked by storm wind blowing trees, cutting off power lines. So in Northern Ireland is still without electricity and therefore without heating and automatic feeding of food and water, about 50 remain farms.
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The second and perhaps the most serious problem for farmers is unprecedented snowfalls. Besides the fact that they covered with a meter layer snow pastures themselves, which now turned out to be unsuitable for walking cattle, in many areas they also blocked the roads leading to farms. As a result, farm workers for several days couldn’t get to the animals to feed them. In some on farms, the animals remained hungry for three to four days. Besides Moreover, roads blocked by snow do not allow farm owners farms to purchase and bring additional animal feed.
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An additional blow to the country’s agriculture was that the rampage of the elements occurred in the lambing season, which will also have certain negative consequences. Moreover, improving the situation, according to weather forecasts, the next week is not expected. This, according to farmers, threatens to turn the situation into a real one. disaster for agriculture.
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