On-farm yield prediction is vital for the successful implementation
of a sustainable energy supply chain based on biomass
crops. Bottom-up verification of model-based supply estimates is
essential to assess the wider impact on food and energy security,
land use change, and GHG emission. In England, farmers have been
encouraged to grow short rotation coppice and Miscanthus as
biomass within the Energy Crops Scheme (ECS). Planting of Miscanthus
has increased between 2006 and 2011 from 6 to 8 thousand
ha1 [8]. According to expert knowledge one could produce an
estimated total of 80e120 thousand tonnes of oven dry matter
(odmt which corresponds to “Mg”) per annum. Potential yield maps
[9] 2 were based on long-term temperature and radiation only and