Most people have found it difficult to get about in the snow but what about farmers who have animals to look after and crops to harvest?

Animals like cows and sheep often spend most of their time on fields and hills, eating grass. But, when the grass is covered by many centimetres of snow, these animals need to be given their food by the farmers. If there’s room, cattle may be brought into barns to be fed and given shelter. But, often, the farmer will have to spread hay and feed by hand over the snowy fields for the sheep and other animals to eat.

Farms growing crops like leeks, cabbages and cauliflowers are ready to be harvested but what if they’re covered by snow or the soil they’re growing in is frozen?

Sarah Pettitt, chairperson of the Horticulture and Potato Board of the National Farmers’ Union says: “Where we would use a harvester we are having to throw 100 people at a field to do the job by hand.”

The National Farmers’ Union says there are working hard to make sure food supplies reach shops and to keep prices from rising.