Drought leaves UK beef farmers scrambling to feed hungry herds

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On David Barton's beef farm in the Cotswolds, western England, months of heat and drought have left his 200 head of Salers, Hereford and Sussex cows with nothing but parched fields to pick at. It's the result of England's driest spring in more than 100 years and the driest January-July period since 1929, according to data from the UK's Met Office. Lucy Fielder has more.

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