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Changing weather patterns increase challenges for Welsh farming family

In spite of unpredictable weather, farmers just have to get on with it, as do John and Sarah Yeomans, whose annual rainfall has nearly doubled since 2010. Gaina Morgan reports

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John and Sarah Yeomans

High rainfall is a feature of life in Mid Wales, as John and Sarah Yeomans can testify. For the last 20 years, Sarah has been measuring the rainfall at their 115-hectare (284-acre) farmstead, Llwyn y Brain,...

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