'I don't think there'll be any profit' - farmer
BBCA farm director has said the business faces a year without profit after suffering through a hot, dry summer.
With England and Wales suffering several heatwaves and on course for the driest July since records began 190 years ago, the rhythms of rural life have been knocked off-course.
For Michael Parker, a director at Sherwood Farms, this year's spring barley harvest has come earlier than he can remember.
His family has spent three generations working their farm near Hickling, and he said the changing climate was posing problems across the country.
"It's purely down to temperatures and the amount of rainfall we've had this year," Parker said.
"Basically they say when it goes over 30 degrees [Celsius] it sort of finishes the crop off, and in May we had a few periods when it went over 30.
"The plant sort of goes into a shutdown, then it's basically a finite time between it finishing and us needing to combine [harvest].
"It's becoming more regular - it's definitely hotter summers, we've all noticed it."
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) has warned there could be a shortage of certain food products if the current drought conditions continue.
NFU President Tom Bradshaw said yields of wheat and oats were "very, very poor" this year and warned livestock farmers have had to use their winter feed rations because they have been unable to grow grass.
Parker, 34, said the earlier and shorter growing period caused by the hot and dry weather had meant the yields were lower for the spring barley, with costs remaining the same.
He said the impact on output was "roughly 20-25% down on what we'd normally expect", and while they plan on conditions "being the new norm" they have had to re-examine how they run the farm.
"It leaves a hole in your books, and then you've just got to cover that," he said.
"I don't think there'll be any profit, it's just whether we break even this year, that's what we're looking to do.
"I think it's an ongoing concern - this is the third year in a row that we've had difficult weather in this country, that's meant that we've not had a normal yield and a normal output, and therefore a normal return, so everyone's looking at doing different things.
"The push is towards different businesses and different diversifications, but it seems a shame when a lot of the country is built on this."
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