Table 5.

Estimated straw incorporated and proportion of incorporated straw that would be available for bioenergy purposes by crop type and Government Office Region; GOR area and associated straw yields taken from Glithero et al. (in press).

Crop	GOR	Area in GOR	Straw yield	Total straw choppeda	Total straw chopped but would be soldb	Percentage of total chopped straw that would be soldc
Wheat	North East	62,021	2.52	22,425	12,527	55.86
	North West	24,066	2.21	0	0
	Yorkshire & the Humber	220,285	2.76	108,999	45,162	41.43
	East Midlands	340,059	3.26	393,044	297,644	75.73
	West Midlands	147,223	1.88	74,139	74,139	100.00
	East of England	482,895	1.66	526,208	279,725	53.16
	South East	222,206	3.34	214,589	98,794	46.04
	South West	136,923	2.23	0	0
	Total	1,635,678	2.48	1,339,403	807,991	60.32
Barley	North East	32,132	2.38	0	0
	North West	18,328	2.00	594	450	75.76
	Yorkshire & the Humber	90,258	3.04	0	0
	East Midlands	59,692	3.58	2,530	2,530	100.00
	West Midlands	35,096	1.81	0	0
	East of England	118,475	1.95	127,890	27,160	21.24
	South East	57,252	2.92	0	0
	South West	70,611	2.25	0	0
	Total	481,845	2.53	131,014	30,139	23.00
Cereals total		2,117,523		1,470,417	838,130	57.00

^aPer farm crop areas multiplied by the percentage of area that would be chopped and incorporated multiplied by the regional straw yield, aggregated to GOR levels (method cited in Glithero et al., in press).

^bPer farm minimum value of either the area of straw chopped or the area of straw that farmers would be willing to be sell for bioenergy, multiplied by the regional straw yield, aggregated to GOR levels (method cited in Glithero et al., in press).

^cTotal straw chopped but would be sold as a percentage of total straw chopped.