Inputs, Nutrition & Protection
Crop Disease & Pest Diagnostics
Identify it correctly, then decide whether it is worth treating.
Most crop protection spend is decided in the field in under a minute. This module supports that decision with structured identification, treatment thresholds drawn from published research rather than product marketing, regional disease pressure intelligence pooled across the platform, and a laboratory referral route when identification genuinely matters.
- 12 capabilities
- 3 linked schemes
- Offline capable
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 3
- Linked support schemes
- 5
- Data integrations
- 5
- Measures reported
The ground reality
What is actually happening in crop diagnostics in the UK
Disease forecasting and threshold-based decision making are well established in the research literature but poorly implemented in day-to-day practice, where prophylactic programmes remain common. Pooled, anonymised regional observation data is one of the few genuinely new sources of decision value a platform can create that no individual farm can generate alone.
Figures are as published at the time of writing. Farm policy and payment rates change frequently — verify against the primary source before relying on any number here.
In the field
Crop diagnostics, 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 Diagnostics — a walkthrough
A working pass through crop diagnostics: 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.
Capabilities
What Crop Diagnostics 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
- Structured identification keys for the major UK crop diseases and pests
- Photographic capture with geotag, growth stage and severity scoring
- Treatment threshold library referenced to published research
Operate and monitor
- Regional pressure mapping from pooled anonymised platform observations
- Disease forecasting models for the principal cereal and oilseed diseases
- Laboratory referral workflow with sample submission and result return
Comply and evidence
- Beneficial insect identification and conservation guidance
- Economic threshold calculation using current crop price and treatment cost
- Historic pressure comparison by field and by season
Analyse and improve
- Alert subscriptions for pests and diseases relevant to your cropping
- Notifiable plant pest reporting route where a finding requires it
- Decision log recording why treatment was or was not applied
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.
Photo-led identification flow narrowing to a probable cause with confidence stated
Photo-led identification flow narrowing to a probable cause with confidence stated
ToolEconomic threshold calculator combining infection level, yield loss and treatment cost
Economic threshold calculator combining infection level, yield loss and treatment cost
CalculatorRegional pressure heat map updated from platform observations
Regional pressure heat map updated from platform observations
MapDisease forecast dial for your holding and variety
Disease forecast dial for your holding and variety
GaugeDecision log timeline showing every treat or no-treat call and its outcome
Decision log timeline showing every treat or no-treat call and its outcome
ToolEnd to end
How Crop Diagnostics runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Observe and photograph in the field
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Work the identification key
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Score severity and incidence
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Compare against the economic threshold
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Check regional pressure context
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Refer to laboratory if uncertain
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Decide and log the reasoning
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Review the outcome at harvest
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Who uses it
Built around four real jobs, not one generic user
Each of these people needs something different from the same record. The module is designed so none of them has to work around the others.
Farm manager
Walking crops
Needs a fast, defensible identification and a threshold to decide against.
Agronomist
Client visits
Needs regional pressure context beyond the farms visited this week.
Research body
Surveillance
Needs anonymised, geolocated observation data at national scale.
New entrant
Building experience
Needs structured identification support rather than folklore.
Schemes and funding
Support schemes this module works with
Agrivencia holds these schemes as data, so eligibility, payment rates, caps and windows update the day they change rather than at the next software release.
Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026
Pay farmers for environmental actions taken alongside food production, as the principal replacement for area-based direct payments in England.
Defra / Rural Payments Agency EnglandFarming Innovation Programme
Fund research and development that solves practical problems for farmers and growers.
Defra with Innovate UK EnglandAccelerating Development of Practices and Technologies
Fund farmer-led on-farm trials of practices and technologies.
Defra with delivery partnersRates, caps and windows change frequently and sometimes without notice. Always confirm against the current published scheme rules before applying.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Observations recorded per hectare
- 02Treatments avoided below threshold
- 03Identification accuracy against laboratory confirmation
- 04Fungicide spend per hectare
- 05Yield loss attributed to disease
Find
Find suppliers and laboratories
Filter by type, nation, distance and accreditation. Results are ranked by relevance to your holding once your holding record exists, and alphabetically before that.
6 records shown from the platform’s own register
- Module Nutrient Management Planning Flagship
- Module Fertilisers & Plant Nutrition Core
- Module Crop Protection, Pesticides & IPM Flagship
- Module Biologicals & Biostimulants Core
- Module Weed Management & Blackgrass Core
- Module Crop Disease & Pest Diagnostics Core
Obligation calendar
What crop diagnostics asks of you, and when
Windows, deadlines and recurring obligations for England. Set a different nation and the calendar reconfigures; farm across a border and it shows both, reconciled.
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February 1 entry
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18 February: Work the identification key
A recurring step in crop diagnostics.
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March 1 entry
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19 March: Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies
Round-based.
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June 2 entries
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5 June: Farming Transformation Fund
Round-based by theme.
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15 June: Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026
Two windows in 2026: window one from 30 June, window two from September.
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July 3 entries
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14 July: Farming Innovation Programme
Competition rounds through the year.
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14 July: Slurry Infrastructure Grant
Round-based.
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17 July: Water Management Grant
Round-based.
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September 2 entries
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14 September: Observe and photograph in the field
A recurring step in crop diagnostics.
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17 September: Compare against the economic threshold
A recurring step in crop diagnostics.
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October 2 entries
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5 October: Farming Equipment and Technology Fund
Round-based, usually open for a defined application period.
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25 October: Score severity and incidence
A recurring step in crop diagnostics.
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November 2 entries
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12 November: Improving Farm Productivity Grant
Round-based.
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27 November: Environmental Land Management Capital Grants
Round-based, with rapid allocation once open.
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December 1 entry
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26 December: Countryside Stewardship
Rolling and round-based depending on the tier and option group.
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Questions answered
What people ask about Crop Diagnostics
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 Diagnostics 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?
Misidentification leading to wrong treatment. Mitigated by confidence scoring and laboratory referral. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
Documents
Take it away with you
Everything here is printable and works on a kitchen table with no signal. Where a document asks for an email address, it says so on the button rather than after you press it.
Thresholds Over Programmes: Deciding When Treatment Actually Pays
The practical handbook for crop diagnostics: what the rules require, what the evidence has to show, and the mistakes that cost people money.
crop diagnostics — evidence checklist
Every document an audit or a claim asks for, in the order it is asked for, with the validity period of each.
crop diagnostics — record template
The record structure the module uses, as a spreadsheet, so a business not yet on the platform can start keeping it correctly today.
Data model reference
Entities, fields and integration points for crop diagnostics, for advisers and software partners.
See Crop Diagnostics 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