Data, APIs & Integrations
Data & Integrations: Overview
The short version of what Data & Integrations does and why it exists.
The platform's strategy is to orchestrate rather than replace. This module manages every inbound and outbound integration, documents the licensing and cost of each data source honestly, and provides the public API and developer programme that lets other systems build on the platform rather than around it.
Detail
Why Data & Integrations exists
The platform's strategy is to orchestrate rather than replace. This module manages every inbound and outbound integration, documents the licensing and cost of each data source honestly, and provides the public API and developer programme that lets other systems build on the platform rather than around it.
The UK has no single agricultural data stack; its equivalent is assembled from many separate services. Some are authoritative and should be integrated rather than rebuilt — livestock traceability, mapping, weather, market intelligence, carbon codes and the biodiversity register among them. Some carry real commercial cost: Ordnance Survey licensing is free at the point of use for public sector members but chargeable for a private platform, which must operate as an OS Partner.
Everything Data & Integrations records is written into the same platform data spine as every other module, which is why a single entry can satisfy an operational need, a scheme evidence requirement, an assurance clause and a carbon activity line at once. That is the whole design premise: the work is already being done, and it is the recording of it that is duplicated.
The ground reality
What is actually happening in data & integrations in the UK
The UK has no single agricultural data stack; its equivalent is assembled from many separate services. Some are authoritative and should be integrated rather than rebuilt — livestock traceability, mapping, weather, market intelligence, carbon codes and the biodiversity register among them. Some carry real commercial cost: Ordnance Survey licensing is free at the point of use for public sector members but chargeable for a private platform, which must operate as an OS Partner.
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
Data & integrations, 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.
Data & Integrations — a walkthrough
A working pass through data & integrations: 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 Data & Integrations 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.
Integration catalogue with status, licensing
Integration catalogue with status, licensing model and cost for every source.
Inbound connectors to government, commercial
Inbound connectors to government, commercial and hardware data sources.
Outbound connectors to accounting, assurance
Outbound connectors to accounting, assurance, supply chain and scheme destinations.
Public REST API with versioning
Public REST API with versioning, documentation and sandbox.
Developer programme with keys, quotas
Developer programme with keys, quotas and terms.
Webhook subscriptions for event-driven partner
Webhook subscriptions for event-driven partner integration.
End to end
How Data & Integrations 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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Catalogue the required data sources
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Establish licensing and commercial terms
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Build and test the connector
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Map schemas and transform
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Monitor health and cost in production
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Publish outbound APIs and webhooks
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Support third-party developers
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 licensing and cost annually
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
How we handle evidence
Where these figures come from
Agrivencia grades every figure it publishes. Primary legislation, official statistics and audit reports are treated as authoritative. Levy body and professional body data is treated as reliable. Commercial trackers and trade press are treated as indicative and labelled as such. Where sources conflict, the conflict is shown rather than resolved silently.
- Authoritative Legislation, statutory instruments, official scheme rules, national audit and public accounts reporting, departmental annual reports and accredited official statistics.
- Reliable Parliamentary committee evidence, peer-reviewed research, independent economic institutes and levy body analysis.
- Supporting Professional bodies, land agents, certification schemes and industry associations.
- Indicative Commercial market trackers and trade press, used for corroboration only and always labelled.
Payment rates, caps and windows in UK farm support change frequently and sometimes without notice. Nothing on this platform is a substitute for the current published scheme rules or for professional advice.
See it working
Book a demonstration on your own holding data
Thirty minutes, using your parcels and your schemes rather than a sample farm, so you can judge it on your own numbers.