Jake Freestone

Really cool farmer, you know, got all sorts going on, like lovely layered system, big scale, kind of all over the Cotswolds.

Similar to Ed, you know, there's people like Tim Parton in Staffordshire or Jake Freestone at Overbreeze.

Again, he's not far from me at all.

Michael Kavanagh as well.

This won't be going to make beer in Burton-on-Trent.

Farmer Jake Freestone says he gives this year's harvest a 2 out of 10.

So there's about 300 tonnes in here and we were budgeting to grow about 1,000 tonnes of this malting barley.

The quality is out of specification for malting barley.

But yeah, if I was just exposed just to growing crops or raising animals, you'd be very, very worried at the moment.

I hear about neighbours who want to raise their overdrafts or take on more loans just to survive, unfortunately.

Back in the Cotswolds, Jake Freestone takes me to see some of the problems the hot weather caused to a reservoir that got so low he and his team had to mount a fish rescue.

But all the water in this reservoir didn't go as far as you might think.

This won't be going to make beer in Burton on Trent.

Farmer Jake Freestone says he gives this year's harvest a two out of ten.

So there's about three hundred tons in here, and we were budgeting to grow about a thousand tons of this malting barley.

The quality is out of specification for malting barley.

But yeah, if I was just exposed just to growing crops or raising animals, you'd be very, very worried at the moment.

I- I'm hearing about neighbors who have to raise their overdrafts or take on more loans ju- just to survive, unfortunately.

Back in the Cotswolds, Jake Freestone takes me to see some of the problems the hot weather caused to a reservoir that got so low, he and his team had to mount a fish rescue.

But all the water in this reservoir didn't go as far as you might think.