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Rows of young crop in dark red soil at Table Cape in north-west Tasmania, with the Table Cape lighthouse above Bass Strait beyond
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McCain seeks A$15/t cut from Tasmanian potato growers as it shelves €1bn German fry plant

Canadian fry maker cites overcapacity on both sides of the world; Belgian growers' 2026-crop contracts about 18% below last year's

Editorial Team
Oct 2, 2026
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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

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

Sep 23, 2026
A potato harvester and tractor working in a dust cloud across a dry Belgian potato field, loading lifted tubers into an orange trailer

Belgian potato price holds at €200 as heat trims crop and futures hedge disappears

Belgapom quotation steady for four weeks after three seasons in which opening prices fell 58 to 75 per cent; EEX delisted the European processing potato future on 5 June

Sep 8, 2026
A green potato harvester lifting tubers into a yellow trailer in a dry field at Forest-Montiers in the Somme, northern France, throwing up a cloud of dust and dried haulm

French potato growers put drought losses at €400mn as heat cuts crop 23%

Growers' body UNPT projects the national crop down 23% and seeks state aid, days before the agriculture minister sizes a wider drought plan.

Aug 26, 2026