When to cut Ideally, when the cane is cut there will be little green left on the plant but in mild winters this may not be the case. The standing crop is unlikely to senesce more beyond the end of… Read More »Harvest ’25 – cut as soon as conditions allow
We are now taking orders for Miscanthus rhizomes for spring 2025 planting. This is a unique opportunity to continue investing in your farm’s future with Miscanthus. Planting Miscanthus on underutilised or flood-prone land ensures long-term, reliable returns and provides a… Read More »Secure your order for spring 2025 Miscanthus planting
New market opportunities for miscanthus are gaining pace, and increased demand means more planting is needed. To support this growth, we’re announcing changes to the grower contracts. Since this time last year, we have moved away from processing pellets for… Read More »Business update
Alex Robinson updates on increases to contract pricing and a new format for harvest declarations… Contract Pricing and Operational Update With the arrival of 2020, we are happy to announce your contract price has increased by 2.6% in line with… Read More »Changes to Miscanthus harvest declarations
Kate Waddams at Aberystwyth University is head of knowledge exchange for a project looking at speeding up Miscanthus plant breeding with AI to help farmers grow more resilient crops in the future. In this guest blog, she tells us more…… Read More »Artificial Intelligence in Miscanthus plant breeding
Miscanthus harvest 2018 has been extreme in many ways, from unrelenting rainfall and a narrowed harvest window, to a record breaking delivery month in May, where we moved just under 14,000 tonnes of Miscanthus, amounting to a whopping 650 deliveries.… Read More »Miscanthus harvest report: From extreme weather to record bale deliveries
Due to the delayed harvest this year, some crops may have new shoots emerging in the coming weeks. Miscanthus is incredibly resilient and any new shoots that are damaged while being travelled on will be replaced by new growth. Only a small… Read More »Miscanthus harvest ’24 top tips
We’re excited to introduce our first guest blogger, Dr Judith Thornton, low carbon manager at Aberystwyth University, who is waxing lyrical about using Miscanthus as a construction material to build the first EVER Miscanthus house… “Straw bale building in the… Read More »Building the first ever Miscanthus house
Ben Booth at Terravesta manages crop establishment and outlines some key benefits to planting Miscanthus in his latest blog post… The top three considerations to highlight are: Miscanthus can thrive on marginal land and low-quality soils, with no irrigation required,… Read More »The benefits of Miscanthus
Our chairman, William Cracroft-Eley, speaks candidly in a blog post looking at the challenge we face to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero… “Tackling climate change and the effects of climate change is the major global environmental challenge. It calls on… Read More »Reaching net zero: the crucial role of agriculture
