HOME-GROWN ENERGY FROM SHORT-ROTATION COPPICE
Written by George Macpherson
Published by Farming Press
in 1995
ISBN: 0852362897
HOME-GROWN ENERGY FROM SHORT-ROTATION COPPICE
Written by George Macpherson.
Stock no. 2137197
1st.
1995.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Glazed pictorial boards. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 0852362897. Spine is faded. Page edge browning.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Derek Wanless
- Introduction
- The Market for Woodchips
- Why Energy Crops Fill More than a Million Hectares of UK Farmland
- Suitable Situations, Soils and Climates for Short-rotation Coppice
- Will It Pay?
- Planting Material
- Establishing the Crop
- Protecting the Crop
- Cheap to Feed
- Harvest: to Chip or not to Chip?
- Storage, Drying, and Utilisation
- Getting Started
- Setting Up Farm Energy Marketing Groups
- The Green Credentials
- The Way Ahead
- Contact Addresses
- Index