{"id":2859,"date":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:33:10","slug":"britain-could-face-food-shortages-as-drought-continues-farmers-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2859","title":{"rendered":"Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue<\/p>\n<p>Britain could face shortages of certain foods after punishing drought in parts of England, the National Farmers\u2019 Union (NFU) has warned as a heatwave was forecast to continue into next week.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued heat health alerts for eight regions of England, with temperatures set to rise above 30C in parts of the country. UKHSA said rising temperatures may increase health risks, particularly for vulnerable groups.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/aug\/02\/britain-food-shortages-drought-continues-farmers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/aug\/02\/britain-food-shortages-drought-continues-farmers' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue Britain could face shortages of certain foods after punishing drought in parts of England, the National Farmers\u2019 Union (NFU) has warned as a heatwave was forecast to continue into next week. The UK\u2019s Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued heat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}