🌿 Environment Aug 27, 2026 · Sarah Butler

Top of the crops: record heatwaves help deliver bumper UK berry harvest

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Top of the crops: record heatwaves help deliver bumper UK berry harvest
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Investment in climate-resilient irrigation enables this year’s haul to rise 6% on 2025’s already bigger-than-usual yieldBritish farmers have faced a sweltering summer tested by heatwaves, wildfires and water shortages – but a bumper berry harvest could prove a rare bright spot.With two-thirds of the harvest now picked, this year’s haul is 6% up on last year’s already unusually large crop, according to British Berry Growers (BBG). Volumes of blackberries, blueberries and raspberries picked have b

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