Harvest 2003: The full report

ALL the news and views, highs and lows, winners and losers of the 2003 harvest campaign were tracked down and put on Harvest Highlights.


During the campaign, we published 57 daily harvest summaries on FWi, and over 400 individual grower reports.


Over the three months the service was running, it received well over 40,000 hits.


Click on the links below to go to our daily summary stories. Links in the stories take you to some of the individual reports



Root, veg and novel crops


Harvest 2003: Sweet progress 26/11/2003
Harvest 2003: Onion joy 23/10/2003
Harvest 2003: Dry lock-up 21/10/2003


Harvest 2003: Top sugars 30/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Bruised and warm 29/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Sweet relief 23/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Rain at last 22/09/2003


Harvest 2003: Dry fry worry 19/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Dry delay 18/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Hot bother 17/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Dry dilemma 16/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Slow but sure 15/09/2003


Harvest 2003: Sweet and clean 12/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Beet unease 11/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Beet begins 10/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Beet too sweet? 09/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Where s the rain? 08/09/2003


Harvest 2003: Rain at last 05/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Bruised tubers 03/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Water want 02/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Spuds crack 01/09/2003
Harvest 2003: Novel joy 22/08/2003


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Combinable crops


Harvest 2003: Variety verdict 29/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Rain dance 28/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Easy record 27/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Time for rain 26/08/2003


Harvest 2003: Scotland smiles 21/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Wheats do well 20/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Dry surprise 19/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Combines cruise 15/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Tweaking pays 14/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Pleasing progress 13/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Scots pause 12/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Dry losses 11/08/2003


Harvest 2003: Quality quandary 08/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Drought bites 07/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Hagberg holds 06/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Crops cook 05/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Sun and smiles 04/08/2003


Harvest 2003: Progress resumes 01/08/2003
Harvest 2003: Quality qualms 31/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Rain pain 30/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Drizzle misery 29/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Wash-out 28/07/2003


Harvest 2003: Frustration 25/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Rape elation 24/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Crops come on 23/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Scots advance 22/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Stop start 21/07/2003


Harvest 2003: Restart on cards? 18/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Progress falters 17/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Skies grow heavy 16/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Crops swelter 15/07/2003
Harvest 2003: Scorched start 14/07/2003


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