Table 3.

Area, yields and potential supply of wheat and barley straw; GOR area and associated straw yields taken from Glithero et al. (in press).

Crop	GOR	Area in GOR	Straw yield	Potential total straw (t)a	Potential supply to bioenergy (t)b	Percentage supply of totalc
Wheat	North East	62,021	2.52	156,114	87,054	55.76
	North West	24,066	2.21	53,093	35,760	67.35
	Yorkshire & the Humber	220,285	2.76	606,894	271,737	44.77
	East Midlands	340,059	3.26	1,108,195	685,874	61.89
	West Midlands	147,223	1.88	277,353	172,706	62.27
	East of England	482,895	1.66	800,943	345,843	43.18
	South East	222,206	3.34	741,744	246,356	33.21
	South West	136,923	2.23	305,467	141,804	46.42
	Total	1,635,678	2.48	4,049,803	1,987,135	49.07
Barley	North East	32,132	2.38	76,475	37,677	49.27
	North West	18,328	2.00	36,647	17,607	48.04
	Yorkshire & the Humber	90,258	3.04	274,486	150,525	54.84
	East Midlands	59,692	3.58	213,753	146,232	68.41
	West Midlands	35,096	1.81	63,449	29,364	46.28
	East of England	118,475	1.95	230,685	47,331	20.52
	South East	57,252	2.92	167,090	60,948	36.48
	South West	70,611	2.25	158,641	39,538	24.92
	Total	481,845	2.53	1,221,228	529,221	43.34
Cereals total		2,117,523		5,271,031	2,516,356	47.74

^aArea in GOR multiplied by straw yield.

^bPer farm crop areas multiplied by the percentage of straw would be willing to sell for bioenergy multiplied by the regional straw yield, aggregated to GOR levels (method cited in Glithero et al., in press).

^cPotential supply to bioenergy as a percentage of potential total straw.