Webinars/Presentations

Harvesting your crop, everything you need to know. The who, what, when, and how of harvesting. Of course, there is a theoretical optimum time to harvest your crop, but our maritime climate often puts a spanner in the works. This webinar will provide some insight into getting the best from your plantation

With modern day farming it’s really important to have your finger on the pulse and get all the latest information so you can make the right decision for your land. […]

When you are managing a perennial biomass crop with a 20 year+ lifetime, it is unlikely that it will all be plain sailing. There’s a lot that can go wrong: […]

Biomass Crops – some interesting alternatives: Poplar and Hemp This webinar will provides the latest developments in two exciting land use options: Poplar and Hemp. The presentations give a quick-fire […]

Webinar 8 contained a number of slides with detailed, complicated information on them and due to time constraints we had to skip over these relatively quickly. A number of people […]

Managing fuel storage and drying to best practice quality standards. Biomass crops produce high yields in a short period of time. However, depending on the crop type and the end […]

Biomass crops and their surrounds are brimming with life – birds, bees, butterflies and predatory arthropods all live in, or on the edge and in the surrounds of these plantations. […]

Some biomass crops are more well known than others, but it’s not all about Willow and Miscanthus as they can’t possibly be the best crop for all situations. There are […]

Fast-growing biomass crops can play a part as a toolkit measure in water quality protection from diffuse agricultural pollution as well as managing point source discharges such as those from […]

Multifunctional Landscapes slides from the talk by Professor Yit Arn Teh presented at the Biomass Crops and Diversification event at Cockle Park Farm, Newcastle University.

The presentations by Caroline Ayre and Gill Alker in Webinar 4 : The Regs – How to play by the rules when planting and using biomass crops were packed full […]

The Regs – How to play by the rules when planting and using biomass crops Before you plant perennial crops or use the biomass in a combustion system you need […]

Biomass Crops - Some Interesting Alternatives.Some biomass crops are bigger and leave a greater impression than others whilst others might be humbler but still get the job done. Our panel includes environmental farmer John Hawkins and expert silviculturalist Bryan Elliott.

The second webinar in our series. “Emerging Markets for Biomass Crops” contains presentations from William Cracroft-Eley the chairman of Terravesta and Prof J.J. Leahy from the University of Limerick. William […]

The first of our Webinar Series – Land preparation – starting off on the right foot with speakers Mike Cooper from Miscanthus Nursery Ltd. and David Watson from Energy Crops […]