From 2017, Drax, the UK’s largest power station, will discontinue the ‘Green Shoots’ programme of direct farmer contracts to supply miscanthus and straw to the plant in North Yorkshire. Letters have been sent to more than 70 contracted miscanthus growers,… Read More »Terravesta Drax miscanthus contract changes
JOB DESCRIPTION Company name: Terravesta Ltd. Project: MUST (Miscanthus Up Scaling Technology) Job title: Field Trials Technician/ Miscanthus agronomy researcher Salary: £22,000-24,000 per annum This is a physically demanding post, including seasonal field work which necessitates working long hours depending… Read More »Job vacancy: Join Terravesta as part of our field-based research team
Strong growth in energy generation from biomass presents good opportunities for growing miscanthus on long-term contracts. That, coupled with increasing demand from whole bale power stations burning miscanthus, means more planting is needed. Farmers interested in finding out about growing… Read More »Miscanthus growers wanted to meet renewable energy demand
With the drive towards efficiency and sustainability in building construction, a new type of insulation and structural material could fundamentally change the industry. Miscanthus – a carbon positive renewable energy crop that’s grown on around 8,000 hectares of UK low… Read More »Miscanthus: the game-changer in building construction
We’ve had an unprecedented tonnage put into grain stores and straw barns this year, which is fantastic. However, due to the uncharacteristically late harvest this year, we find ourselves with a back-log of bale collections building around the pre-cereal harvest… Read More »Unprecedented tonnage means back-log of bale collections
Rhys Jones, research, development, and agronomy technician at Terravesta, along with his team, representing Bishop Burton College, have had a landslide win for the Cereals Pea Growing Challenge 2016 – receiving full marks for yield criteria. Competing against students from… Read More »We have a winner!
Farmers and scientists met at Hackthorn, Lincoln at the end of June to find out more about our ground-breaking seed breeding project that could see the costs of miscanthus production reduced and make it an even more economically viable crop… Read More »Fantastic feedback from GIANT Link farm walk
Establishing miscanthus from seed rather than rhizome has taken a step nearer to commercial reality with field trials of three promising hybrid varieties getting under way this year. It’s predicted that miscanthus plugs propagated from seed could be commercially available… Read More »Miscanthus grown from seed possible by 2019
We co-hosted the first CLA breakfast at the Lincolnshire show and the feedback was fantastic. And to top it all, we were over the moon to have William Cracroft-Eley, Terravesta chairman, presenting at the event. The theme was maximising returns… Read More »CLA breakfast success
The miscanthus market is growing at a rapid rate and one Lincolnshire producer has planted 1,000 hectares of the crop to service a handful of lucrative markets. The Wilson family, now dedicated miscanthus growers, are inviting anyone interested in planting… Read More »June farm walk highlights maturing miscanthus market opportunities
