10 Heston bales of bedding straw/ acre with no inputs once established? What’s it cost to establish if you want crop for own use?
Miscanthus yields
- Thread starter willy
- Start date
About £1500 from what I've seen and no yield for first year
It's shallow rooting rhizomes that do allow machinery to travel better than normal although 10 tons on a single axle bale trailer will make shallow ruts if the weather breaks before you get them moved off.
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Acre or ha?
A ha
Berluddy hell!
But I guess once established, you could use your own plants as rootstock material? Same as with willow and poplar.
There's wet and there's wet!
Our experience here is that all those clay patches which were growing nothing but rushes 60 years or so ago revert to rushes under miscanthus.
With annual cropping however, you always have a 50/50 chance that they'll turn out to be the best yielding (or the worst) depending on distribution of rainfall.
