Crop Farming & Precision Agriculture
Crop Farming: Features & Capabilities
Every capability in Crop Farming, grouped by what it is for.
Crop Farming carries 16 capabilities and 7 interactive tools. They are grouped below by what they are for rather than by which screen they live on, because the underlying record is shared.
Capabilities
What Crop Farming does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Field-level cropping record with full multi-year rotation history and cropping intensity tracking
- Drilling planner with seed rate, thousand grain weight, target plant population and establishment loss allowance
- Variety selection linked to the AHDB Recommended Lists, with disease resistance and regional yield filtering
- Growth stage tracking on the Zadoks and BBCH scales, with photo evidence at each stage
Operate and monitor
- Field operations diary covering cultivations, drilling, applications, mechanical weeding and harvest
- Cost of production ledger by field, by crop and by enterprise, with contractor and own-machinery rates
- Yield mapping ingestion from combine and forage harvester exports, normalised across brands
- Variable rate prescription builder for seed, nutrition and plant growth regulators
Comply and evidence
- Gross margin calculation per field, with a whole-farm roll-up and peer benchmarking
- Weighbridge ticket capture with moisture, specific weight, screenings and admixture against contract spec
- Rotational compliance checks against scheme rules, including rotational action caps
- Offline-first field capture with deferred sync, built for the 78 per cent of rural premises without reliable indoor coverage
Analyse and improve
- Automatic assurance evidence assembly into Red Tractor and LEAF Marque audit packs
- Carbon footprint data collection embedded in the operations record rather than a separate annual exercise
- Cropping plan versioning, so what you intended and what you did are both retained for audit
- Contractor and agronomist seats with scoped, revocable access per holding
In the field
Crop farming, as it actually looks
Photography from working UK holdings alongside the interface that records it. Every frame below is a commissioned slot: the brief is stated until the photograph is taken.
Crop Farming — a walkthrough
A working pass through crop farming: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.
- 0:00 What the module is for
- 0:48 Entering the record
- 2:05 Where it appears next
- 3:20 The evidence pack
Photography slots state their own brief until the shot is commissioned, so the layout never shifts when real images arrive.
In practice
Six things Crop Farming changes on day one
None of these requires a new process. They all come from recording the work you already do, once, in a form the rest of the platform can use.
Field-level cropping record with full
Field-level cropping record with full multi-year rotation history and cropping intensity tracking.
Drilling planner with seed rate
Drilling planner with seed rate, thousand grain weight, target plant population and establishment loss allowance.
Variety selection linked to the
Variety selection linked to the AHDB Recommended Lists, with disease resistance and regional yield filtering.
Growth stage tracking on the
Growth stage tracking on the Zadoks and BBCH scales, with photo evidence at each stage.
Field operations diary covering cultivations
Field operations diary covering cultivations, drilling, applications, mechanical weeding and harvest.
Cost of production ledger by
Cost of production ledger by field, by crop and by enterprise, with contractor and own-machinery rates.
By nation
The same job, four different sets of rules
Delivered by: Defra, the Rural Payments Agency, Natural England, the Environment Agency and the Forestry Commission.
Main scheme: Environmental Land Management, with the Sustainable Farming Incentive as the principal offer alongside Countryside Stewardship, capital grants and Landscape Recovery.
Delinked payments end after 2027. Windows have closed at short notice before, so budget-fill status is worth watching.
Delivered by: The Scottish Government and the Rural Payments and Inspections Division.
Main scheme: A four-tier framework under the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024, with base and enhanced direct payments and elective and complementary tiers following.
Whole Farm Plan components are a condition of support and phase in over several years. Miss a component and the payment is at risk.
Delivered by: The Welsh Government and Rural Payments Wales.
Main scheme: The Sustainable Farming Scheme, with Universal, Optional and Collaborative layers, replacing the legacy area payment which phases out by 2029.
The Universal layer requires twelve actions, at least ten per cent habitat and a farm carbon baseline. Welsh language provision is a legal expectation, not an optional extra.
Delivered by: DAERA.
Main scheme: The Sustainable Agriculture Programme, with the Farm Sustainability Payment as the area-based safety net alongside beef, suckler, sheep, protein crop and horticulture schemes.
Conditionality now includes soil nutrient health and bovine genetics participation, and progressive capping applies above sixty thousand pounds.
Interactive
Tools you actually use, not screens you read
These are working interfaces inside the module — maps, calculators, planners and dashboards that respond to your own holding data.
Field map with switchable layers: soil zones, yield, NDVI, drainage, designations and scheme actions
Field map with switchable layers: soil zones, yield, NDVI, drainage, designations and scheme actions
MapRotation planner
drag crops across a multi-year grid and see break-crop and scheme-rule conflicts flag live
BuilderSeed rate calculator that converts target population and thousand grain weight into kilograms per hectare
Seed rate calculator that converts target population and thousand grain weight into kilograms per hectare
CalculatorGross margin simulator with commodity price and input cost sliders
Gross margin simulator with commodity price and input cost sliders
ToolEstablishment risk model combining drilling date, seedbed condition and forecast
Establishment risk model combining drilling date, seedbed condition and forecast
ToolGrowth stage photo timeline with side-by-side season comparison
Growth stage photo timeline with side-by-side season comparison
ToolYield versus plan variance chart, drillable to field and to sub-field zone
Yield versus plan variance chart, drillable to field and to sub-field zone
ChartBenchmarking
How this compares with businesses like yours
A cohort is only useful if it is genuinely comparable, so it is built from farm type, soil grade, region and scale rather than from whoever happens to have signed up. Your own figure is never shown to anyone else.
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Hectares under active management
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 23 Median 53 Upper quartile 82
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Operations logged per hectare per season
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 27 Median 57 Upper quartile 72
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Percentage of assurance evidence auto-assembled
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 40 Median 60 Upper quartile 78
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Yield versus plan variance
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 25 Median 62 Upper quartile 77
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Cost of production per tonne
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 26 Median 50 Upper quartile 80
How the cohort is built
- Farm type
- Matched
- Soil grade
- Matched
- Region
- Matched
- Scale band
- Matched
- Cohort size
- Minimum 12 businesses, or no comparison is shown
Compared
Where Agrivencia differs from what already exists
The UK already has strong point tools. What it does not have is one record spanning them, or one view spanning four nations. That gap is the entire proposition.
| Agrivencia | Single-purpose farm software | Government portals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covers all four nations | Yes, each as a first-class tenancy | Usually one nation | One administration each |
| One record across domains | Yes — 84 modules, one data spine | Within its own domain only | Within its own scheme only |
| Scheme rules held as data | Yes, updated the day rules change | Rarely | Authoritative but not reusable |
| Assurance evidence auto-assembled | Yes, from operational records | Partially, per scheme | Not applicable |
| Whole-farm income optimisation | Across schemes and nature markets together | No | No |
| Offline field capture | Yes, designed first | Varies | Generally no |
| Marketplace and commerce | Multivendor with verification and escrow | Separate platforms | Not applicable |
| Farmer-owned data export | Published charter, open formats | Varies considerably | Limited |
This comparison describes categories of product rather than named competitors, and reflects our own assessment. Any specific product should be evaluated on its current published capability.
Data model
What the module records, and how it connects
These are the entities the module maintains. Because they are shared across the platform rather than owned by one screen, a record created here is available everywhere it is relevant.
- Holding
- Field parcel
- Cropping season
- Crop
- Variety
- Operation
- Application
- Observation
- Harvest lot
- Yield surface
- Cost line
- Evidence artefact
Every entity carries a full audit trail and is exportable in open formats under the Farm Data Charter.
Questions answered
What people ask about Crop Farming
Does this replace the software I already use?
Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.
Will it work where I have no signal?
Yes. Field capture in Crop Farming is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.
What happens when the scheme rules change?
Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.
Who owns the data I put in?
You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.
Does it work if I farm across a border?
Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.
Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?
Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.
What is the biggest limitation of this module?
Rural connectivity gaps. Mitigated by offline-first capture and deferred sync. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
See Crop Farming running on your own holding
Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.
- Free tier available
- No card required
- Your data stays yours