presents reasons given for being willing or not willing to consider growing SRC or miscanthus following the approach of Glithero et al. (2013c). For both SRC and miscanthus common issues emerge as reasons cited for deciding to not consider growing these crops. Within the practical reasons, ‘committing land for a long period of time’, followed by ‘lack of appropriate machinery’, are consistently cited. In addition, for approximately 25% of respondents, ‘permission from the landlord’ would be required. Within the practical reasons grouping, the ‘use of known machinery’ and ‘ease of crop management’ were cited by very small numbers of respondents with respect to either being willing or not willing to consider growing these crops. With respect to environmental reasons the major issue cited relates to ‘land quality aspects’, with damage to drains and cost of changing land back to agricultural use identified to respondents as the definition for this category. Approximately 15% of respondents cited ‘negative environmental impacts’ as a reason for choosing not to consider growing either crop. ‘Nitrate Vulnerable Zone restrictions’ were not a key determining factor for farmers, and very limited numbers of respondents cited ‘positive environmental impact’ of miscanthus or SRC as an important aspect in their decision making. Profitability was cited as a key financial driver against considering growing these crops, followed by ‘time to financial return’ and ‘no market for the crop’. It is informative to note that while ‘no local working example’ was cited by over 10% of farmers as a reason for not being willing to consider growing either of these crops, the presence of a ‘local working example’ has also been cited by a small number of respondents as a reason for not being willing to consider growing either crop. From the responses citing willingness to consider SRC or miscanthus, ‘profitability of the crop’ is highlighted as a key influence, followed by ‘market for the crop’ and ‘time to financial return’. Note however, that the modest number of positive responses towards growing the crops leads to single responses having a relatively large influence on the overall percentage influence recorded. Respondents also provided additional comments to the pre-set potential responses. One hundred and thirty one (49.8%) additional comments were recorded. These have been categorised in Table 3 as ‘interest and morality’ (11 responses), ‘current and future farming/business activities’ (19), ‘land resource availability’ (32), ‘land quality/topography’ (41), ‘knowledge’ (14), ‘other’ (14). It is informative to note the large number of comments relating to land quality/topography which frequently highlighted aspects of unsuitability of land for crop production, steepness of slopes or wet land and weather conditions.