From milk to cow cuddles: British farm pivots amid flood and soaring food prices

Visitor Grace Vandersypen embraces a cow during cow cuddling at Dumble Farm in Arram, Britain.— Photos: PHIL NOBLE/Reuters

Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its cows and instead charge visitors to cuddle them.

Dumble Farm started as a dairy farm in the 1970s, but in recent years flooding washed out crops and killed off the type of grass the cows like to eat, while milk prices below cost of production proved an insurmountable challenge.