Articles published

28/08/08  Farmers’ Weekly

Chop energy costs with a biomass boiler?

How to grow your own wood fuel for a log or wood chip boiler. Of particular interest to people living in rural properties off the gas grid.

Read this article then buy our grow your own woodfuel kits. 

02/11/07 Farmers’ Weekly

So you want to be a woodfuel supplier?

How farmers can diversify into woodfuel.

26/10/07 Farmers’ Weekly

Bioenergy Britain

Market survey of biomass & biofuels projects in UK.

02/02/07 Farmers’ Weekly

Biogas: The Energy of the Future?

Q&A article about on farm anaerobic digestion.

01/12/06 Farmers’ Weekly

Smaller kit cuts costs

Small scale renewable energy options for farms.

31/08/06 Horticulture Week

Blazing the trail

Article looking at five glasshouse / plant nurseries using biomass to meet their heating needs.

28/07/06 Farmers’ Weekly

Bioenergy contracts

Market survey of energy crop projects in UK.

02/06/06 Farmers’ Weekly

CHP: Could you be a power producer?

Q&A article about on farm biomass combined heat and power (CHP) units.

19/05/06 Farmers’ Weekly

Report leaves farmers at biomass turning point

Critique of the Government response to the Biomass Task Force.

05/05/06 Farmers’ Weekly

Wonder Fuels?

Feasibility of grain boilers for heating.

Summer 06 Fields of Energy

Rupert Burr – ten years on in Witshire.

Article on one of the early adopters of energy crop growing.

29/04/05 Farmers’ Weekly

Home grown heating alternative

An article focussing on five UK farmers who are growing SRC willows to provide their own heating needs.

19/01/05 The Guardian

The chips are down

Critical article on the energy crops industry. 

2001 Aspects of Applied Biology

Comparative trials of elite Swedish and UK biomass willow varieties

Journal article which summarises 10 years of willow yield trial data from four sites in the UK. 

2000/01 DTi / ETSU Seminar Series

Willow Breeding Strategies - The Way Forward

Conference paper on breeding and selection strategies. 

1997 Aspects of Applied Biology

Breeding willows for biomass

Journal article on the techniques employed in willow breeding.