Once farmers had indicated their willingness, or otherwise, towards growing SRC or miscanthus, they were asked to select which factors were important in their decision making across a range of practical, environmental, financial and knowledge factors. Practical factors consisted of: lack of appropriate machinery; use of known machinery; ease of crop management; committing land for a long period of time; ‘need planning permission from landlord’. Environmental factors examined were: positive environmental impact (of crop); negative environmental impact; Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) restrictions; ‘land quality aspects’. Financial and knowledge factors examined were: time to financial return for crop; market for crop; no market for crop; profitability; local working example; no local working example. These responses were then analysed with respect to willingness to grow the energy crop or not, for each crop of SRC and miscanthus, to indicate the percentage of responses per importance factor. In addition to the pre-determined factors within the questionnaire, farmers could also add additional factors that were important in their decision making; these factors were grouped together in broad categories with specific comments detailed as issues raised by farmers in the survey.