A severe feed and forage crisis is gripping the livestock industry as a rampant wave of pasture fires ravages the landscape, forcing farmers into a desperate scramble for resources and threatening to set the island’s sheep industry back by decades, Barbados TODAY has learned.

​The traditional dry season has taken a destructive turn, transforming vital grazing lands into barren expanses. Farmers are reporting that the typical brown hues of the dry spell have been replaced by scorched earth, particularly in farming strongholds like St John.

​”There’s no grass, and if you look around, everything’s being burnt,” said president of the Barbados Sheep Farmers Inc. Rommel Parris, describing the grim reality on the ground.