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Growing Short Rotation Coppice - Best practice guidelines

This booklet is produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK aimed at applicants to DEFRA's Energy Crops Scheme. The text was produced by Barbara Hilton of ADAS Consulting and Mike Bullard of ADAS Consulting Ltd. It has been produced to introduce farmers to a new crop, providing guidance on a the choice of site, planting techniques, crop management and harvesting methods required when growing willow or poplar coppice as an energy crop.

The booklet summarises current agronomic techniques, but points out that these may need to be modified as further expereince is gained.

Contents

• Introduction
• Why grow energy crops?
• What is SRC?
• Where to grow SRC, site selection and plantation design
• Land preparation
• Planting material
• Establishment: Planting, Establishment year management, Cutback
• Calender of activity
• General management: Headlands and rides, Fertilisation, Nitrate vulnarable zones, Pests and diseases
• Harvesting: Rod harvesting, Direct chip harvesting, Billet harvesting
• Yield
• Biodiversity
• Removal of SRC
• Poplar SRC: Site, Planting Material, Planting, Management, Yields, Harvesting, Removal
• References
• Contacts

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• Energy Crops Scheme DEFRA / UNITED KINGDOM