Dry weather boosts UK's strawberry crops

The dry weather that the UK has experienced this Spring is causing increasing concern for many farmers, with some potato growers warning of a total wipe out of this year's crop.

However for strawberry farmers in Hampshire, the sunshine is a blessing and means that most of the strawberries found in the local grocers won't be from foreign imports, but from farms across the UK.

Our rural affairs correspondent Jeremy Cooke reports.

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