Crop Disease & Pest Diagnostics
Crop Diagnostics: For Farmers
What Crop Diagnostics changes for the person actually doing the work.
For the person running the business, the test of any farm software is whether it removes work or adds it. 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.
In their words
What the job actually looks like
These are not marketing personas. Each one is a distinct job with a distinct constraint, and the module is designed so that solving one does not create work for the others.
Farm manager
Walking crops
Needs a fast, defensible identification and a threshold to decide against.
- Observe and photograph in the field
- Work the identification key
- Score severity and incidence
- Compare against the economic threshold
Agronomist
Client visits
Needs regional pressure context beyond the farms visited this week.
- Work the identification key
- Score severity and incidence
- Compare against the economic threshold
- Check regional pressure context
Research body
Surveillance
Needs anonymised, geolocated observation data at national scale.
- Score severity and incidence
- Compare against the economic threshold
- Check regional pressure context
- Refer to laboratory if uncertain
End 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.
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
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
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Crop Diagnostics
The problem: Needs a fast, defensible identification and a threshold to decide against.
What they do
- Observe and photograph in the field
- Work the identification key
- Score severity and incidence
- Compare against the economic threshold
What changes
- Observations recorded per hectare
- Treatments avoided below threshold
- Identification accuracy against laboratory confirmation
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
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
Free tool
Run the numbers for your own holding
Enter your figures and get an answer you can act on, with the method shown so you can check it. Save the result to your account or take it away as a PDF.