Snetterton straw burning power station

[spin cycle]

loads of straw for sale on brown&co online sale just now

 

[DaveGrohl]

But planting trees if they are burning woodchip at least has some logic to it and they do soak up carbon.

Well quite, cyclical carbon innit. Nowt wrong with picking up a few dead branches from the wood and burning them, it’s what we’ve always done. The industrialisation of the process involving the huge burning of fossil fuels has caused "complications". And again, summat’s gotta be burned to produce power. Unless we use solar, wind, hydro, tidal, nuclear, etc………

 

[Hilly]

If a contractor baled 2000 acres and carts it to a shed on the farm then not that easy, better by the bale

Not for me, i used to but the money invloved now is to much to play with weight is only way .

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Told today that Maize for the AD plants will have to be harvested using white diesel.
Will not straw that is destined for Burning not have to also use white?

A big forager on white will surely use over £1200 worth a day!!

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

Has the value of the electricity the straw and maize power staitions produce gone up or is it somehow fixed ? That cost of production has obviously risen dramatically.

 

[puntabrava]

Told today that Maize for the AD plants will have to be harvested using white diesel.
Will not straw that is destined for Burning not have to also use white?

A big forager on white will surely use over £1200 worth a day!!

I do not think that is correct, they can harvest on red as I read it.

 

[Exfarmer]

Told today that Maize for the AD plants will have to be harvested using white diesel.
Will not straw that is destined for Burning not have to also use white?

A big forager on white will surely use over £1200 worth a day!!

The advice was not necessarily correct. If the crop is harvested by the farmer and sold off the farm by him to the biomass operator then it is a red job even if he uses contractors all the way through

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

The advice was not necessarily correct. If the crop is harvested by the farmer and sold off the farm by him to the biomass operator then it is a red job even if he uses contractors all the way through

But if the AD plant employs the contractor to harvest then it has to be on White?
Straw taken from the farm to the Burners must also be on White presumably?

 

[Banana Bar]

Trading straw by the acre is madness , needs to be by the ton or not at all.

Maybe, but I know how many ha I have, I definitely never know how many tonnes leave the field.

 

[Bald Rick]

Maybe, but I know how many ha I have, I definitely never know how many tonnes leave the field.

As a buyer, I would far rather pay by the tonne over a weigh bridge then it’s fair to both parties

 

[fieldfarmer]

But if the AD plant employs the contractor to harvest then it has to be on White?
Straw taken from the farm to the Burners must also be on White presumably?

So the AD plant will pay more per acre to the farmer to include harvesting ect who will intern forward it to the contractor to cover harvesting and delivery, all on red.

 

[ajd132]

As a buyer, I would far rather pay by the tonne over a weigh bridge then it’s fair to both parties

The only way really to do this is get the first couple loads over someone’s weighbridge, take an average and then count the lorries leaving the field.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Straw maybe (but they probably would not get anywhere near enough to sustain a plant like Drax) but woodchip is off the scale and so is under review ...... albeit Ukraine has thrown a very large spanner in any sort of power generation and I suspect that the review will quietly be swept under the carpet and we will carry on importing millions of tonnes of US/Canadian woodchip to burn for the foreseeable

with the 1000s of acres of timber flattened in the storms a fair bit is no use for milling into lumber due to shattering/splintering it might as well get chipped and burned rather than just laying in a tangled mess

 

[DaveGrohl]

with the 1000s of acres of timber flattened in the storms a fair bit is no use for milling into lumber due to shattering/splintering it might as well get chipped and burned rather than just laying in a tangled mess

Indeed, and why not? Otherwise it’ll just slowly revert to CO2 anyway. May as well get some leccy out of it in the meantime.