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Jun
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Miscanthus – A Miracle Crop or a Touch of Madness

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author Helen Holman

My last two blogs have covered the most critical time of year for us – our miscanthus harvest, so now I probably need to explain why we started the move into growing miscanthus ten years ago. Up until 1985 my grandfather and father had farmed a 430 acre mixed beef / sheep and arable farm in Warwickshire. Our rotation here had been a traditional wheat / barley / oats / beans and OSR in varying proportions, on a heavy clay soil.   After... 

30
Apr
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Rain Stops Play

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author Helen Holman

I had hoped that by the time I had come to write my second blog that I would be reporting that our Miscanthus harvest would all be tucked up safely in the sheds, job jobbed for another 12 months. But of course this is agriculture and rarely do things go that smoothly. All that can be cut is cut, there are still some patches on the peat grown that are too wet for the cutters to venture into. These areas will be left uncut, the rhizome will put up new... 

4
Apr
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Spring has sprung and it’s harvest time

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author Helen Holman

As we move from the wet winter months into spring, signified by losing an hour, we are in the middle of harvest yes that’s right, harvest.  While most of you will be pre-occupied with the delights of new births and the planting of seeds of all shapes and sizes and tending to the autumn sown crops, we are looking to get our crop safely gathered in. Harvest for us is 400 acres of biomass in the form of Miscanthus Giganticus, where the oldest fields...