Horticulture & Protected Cropping
Horticulture: Features & Capabilities
Every capability in Horticulture, grouped by what it is for.
Horticulture carries 12 capabilities and 5 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 Horticulture 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
- Crop walk records with pest, disease and beneficial counts by block and by bed
- Harvest scheduling against forecast demand, with pick-by-date and cold chain handover
- Labour planning by task, with piece rate and hourly cost modelling
Operate and monitor
- Seasonal Worker sponsorship record keeping and compliance evidence
- Residue and Maximum Residue Level compliance with pre-harvest interval enforcement
- Protected cropping environment control logging — temperature, humidity, CO2 and irrigation
Comply and evidence
- Substrate, hydroponic and soil-grown nutrition programme management
- Pollination management including managed bumblebee and honeybee hive records
- Retailer specification tracker with grade-out and rejection analysis
Analyse and improve
- Packhouse throughput, grade-out and yield recovery reporting
- Traceability from bed to pallet with lot-level recall capability
- Water use and irrigation scheduling per crop stage under abstraction constraints
In the field
Horticulture, 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.
Horticulture — a walkthrough
A working pass through horticulture: 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 Horticulture 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.
Crop walk records with pest
Crop walk records with pest, disease and beneficial counts by block and by bed.
Harvest scheduling against forecast demand
Harvest scheduling against forecast demand, with pick-by-date and cold chain handover.
Labour planning by task, with
Labour planning by task, with piece rate and hourly cost modelling.
Seasonal Worker sponsorship record keeping
Seasonal Worker sponsorship record keeping and compliance evidence.
Residue and Maximum Residue Level
Residue and Maximum Residue Level compliance with pre-harvest interval enforcement.
Protected cropping environment control logging
Protected cropping environment control logging — temperature, humidity, CO2 and irrigation.
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.
Harvest forecast curve with weather-adjusted maturity modelling
Harvest forecast curve with weather-adjusted maturity modelling
ToolLabour requirement planner by week, task and crop
Labour requirement planner by week, task and crop
BuilderPre-harvest interval checker that blocks a harvest date if an application makes it non-compliant
Pre-harvest interval checker that blocks a harvest date if an application makes it non-compliant
WizardGrade-out waterfall showing where saleable yield is lost
Grade-out waterfall showing where saleable yield is lost
ToolProtected cropping environment dashboard with alarm thresholds
Protected cropping environment dashboard with alarm thresholds
DashboardBenchmarking
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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Saleable yield per hectare
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 34 Median 52 Upper quartile 74
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Grade-out percentage
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 36 Median 51 Upper quartile 85
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Cost per kilogram packed
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 37 Median 61 Upper quartile 72
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Labour hours per tonne
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 37 Median 61 Upper quartile 87
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Rejection and claim rate
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 27 Median 62 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.
- Block
- Bed
- Planting
- Crop walk
- Pick
- Lot
- Pallet
- Worker
- Specification
- Residue test
Every entity carries a full audit trail and is exportable in open formats under the Farm Data Charter.
Questions answered
What people ask about Horticulture
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 Horticulture 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?
Labour availability. Mitigated by early requirement forecasting. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
See Horticulture 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