Fruit farmer Suzannah Starkey of Starkey’s Fruit in Southwell looks at the impact of rain and muddy soil on crops

Suzannah Starkey’s article in Nottingham Post

We need to consider how better to cope with excess water, whatever the cause, by cleaning ditches, digging out channels and draining surface water into lagoons because it is filtering too slowly to the subsoils, to the detriment of the crop.