Miscanthus and benefit from a long-term end-user contract with finance available.

Thriving in areas where other crops struggle, Miscanthus can be grown on less productive land, including flood-prone fields that are less profitable or higher-risk. Furthermore, it contributes to soil stability and offers numerous environmental advantages, such as biodiversity benefits and the sequestration of 2.35 tonnes of CO2e per hectare annually.

Miscanthus is a perennial highly sustainable, renewable energy crop that’s more affordable and profitable thanks to SFI payments, accelerating the break-even point for return on investment and yielding an average net return of £930 per hectare for a 10-hectare crop. This figure continues to rise annually because it’s retail price index linked.

A solution for waterlogged or high-risk fieldsResults of a study from the Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University concluded that Miscanthus can thrive on waterlogged fields, it provides soil stability and crop yield is not affected by excess water.

Growers profiting from Miscanthus on flood-prone land “Arable crops would never have survived the flooded conditions that the Miscanthus was exposed to, and we didn’t lose any money on inputs. The annual yield quickly recovered, and in 2017 and 2020, we had bumper harvests of over 13t/ha.” Rob Meadley, East Yorkshire arable farmer.“It was a win-win situation, because no damage was done to the land, no money was spent on contractors, it wasn’t a loss, because we harvested the crop the following year with the new growth and we hadn’t spent any money on inputs because no fertiliser was applied,” William Cracroft-Eley, Lincolnshire Miscanthus grower.