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A field of potatoes with the haulm burnt off and brown, ready for lifting, under a blue sky with hedgerows and green fields beyond near Clough, County Down
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Northern Irish potato packer Glens of Antrim collapses with loss of 95 jobs

Administrators appointed nine months after accounts showed a £596,000 profit and a positive outlook; growers left with potatoes in the ground and no buyer, MP says

Editorial Team
Sep 23, 2026
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A field of sugar beet with wilted, browning leaves during drought, a maize field and tree line behind

Europe's official sugar forecasts were written before drought reached beet crop

USDA and the European Commission both cut their 2026/27 outlooks on low prices, not weather. EU beet area is already down 14.8 per cent in two years, and July was the driest since 1940 at every one of Cropli's UK monitoring points.

Aug 4, 2026
Dry, cracked ground in a field indicating drought conditions

England's farm water restrictions double as beet belt records its driest July in 86 years

Hands-off-flow limits on abstraction licences went from 729 to 1,506 in three weeks, while the government's drought reporting still does not name sugar beet or potatoes

Jul 30, 2026