Table 6.

Estimated straw usage and the proportion of used 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 used a	Total straw used but would be sold b	Percentage of total used straw that would be sold c
Wheat	North East	62,021	2.52	133,689	80,758	60.41
	North West	24,066	2.21	53,093	35,760	67.35
	Yorkshire & the Humber	220,285	2.76	497,895	251,837	50.58
	East Midlands	340,059	3.26	715,151	482,894	67.52
	West Midlands	147,223	1.88	203,215	139,666	68.73
	East of England	482,895	1.66	274,735	118,141	43.00
	South East	222,206	3.34	527,155	214,867	40.76
	South West	136,923	2.23	305,467	141,804	46.42
	Total	1,635,678	2.48	2,710,400	1,465,727	54.08
Barley	North East	32,132	2.38	76,475	37,677	49.27
	North West	18,328	2.00	36,053	17,463	48.44
	Yorkshire & the Humber	90,258	3.04	274,486	150,525	54.84
	East Midlands	59,692	3.58	211,224	143,702	68.03
	West Midlands	35,096	1.81	63,449	29,364	46.28
	East of England	118,475	1.95	102,795	20,172	19.62
	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	1,090,214	499,388	45.81
Cereals total		2,117,523		3,800,613	1,965,115	51.71

^aArea in GOR multiplied by the straw yield minus the total straw chopped from Table 5.

^bPer farm minimum value of either the area of straw used or the area of straw that farmers 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).

^cTotal straw used that farmers would be willing to sell for bioenergy as a percentage of the total straw used.