NFU Scotland said crops are destroyed and the industry is trying to assess the extent of losses.
Farmers in parts of Scotland hit by devastating floods during Storm Babet say they are starting to count the cost of the damage.NFU Scotland said crops had been destroyed and the industry was trying to assess the full extent of losses.Neil MacLeod is the farm manager at Southesk Farms in Angus.
"We will have to start again with some I'm sure. The finances don't stack up when you have to do it all again, that's for sure. He added: "It happened in 2015 and we were told then it was a one-in-200-year event, it happened last year, and this I would say is the worst damage we've had in terms of the ferociousness of the water speed."There might have to be an acceptance that some of these areas we can't farm any longer."The RSABI farming charity said it had a £100,000 Flooding Crisis Fund aimed at helping Scottish farming and crofting families who have been seriously affected by flooding.
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