"The most successful farmers are already climate resilient in that their farming systems are designed with their soil and climate in mind. Serious weather events like the floods of the last couple of years may have caught them out though.
“Resilience means changing operations to be able to cope with either the new climate being predicted - and yes farmers would be right to query exactly what is being predicted - or the increased frequency and severity of extreme events, which is also predicted and is already being seen in reality.
“In other words, a farmer should do a risk assessment of flood, drought and heat wave on his farming system - can he cope with a flood? If not what can he do?” says Dr John Conway, at the Royal Agricultural University in an interview with Farmers Weekly.