Crops & Cultivation

Cereals, Oilseeds & Pulses

Wheat, barley, oats, oilseed rape, beans and peas — planned, protected and marketed.

A crop-specific layer over the cropping record, carrying the agronomy, market specification and scheme interactions particular to each combinable crop. It answers the questions a general farm management system cannot: whether this variety will hit milling protein on this soil, whether the break crop is worth it against the rotation, and what the malting contract will actually reject on.

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12 capabilities
3 linked schemes
Offline capable

12: Capabilities in this module
5: Interactive tools
3: Linked support schemes
6: Data integrations
5: Measures reported

The ground reality

What is actually happening in combinable Crops in the UK

Cereals occupy roughly three million hectares in England alone, a third of the cropped area, and combinable crop margins are now routinely negative before support. Defra Farm Business Income data has shown general cropping farms forecast to halve in a single year, with crop output falling while livestock output rose. On thin Cotswold brash and similar droughty limestone soils, spring malting barley frequently outperforms a marginal second wheat, and the difference between the two decisions is often larger than any input saving available elsewhere.

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.

Capabilities

What Combinable Crops 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-by-crop agronomy libraries for wheat, barley, oats, oilseed rape, beans, peas and linseed
Milling and malting specification tracker with protein, Hagberg, specific weight and nitrogen targets
Variety performance comparison filtered by region, soil type, drilling date and disease pressure

Operate and monitor

Break crop economics comparing rotational benefit against direct margin
Flea beetle and cabbage stem risk model for oilseed rape establishment decisions
Pulse nitrogen credit calculation carried forward into the following crop nutrition plan

Comply and evidence

Grain contract manager with tonnage, spec, movement window and premium tracking
Forward selling position tracker across contracts, pools and spot sales
Storage allocation by bin, by spec and by contract

Analyse and improve

Rejection risk alerting when store conditions drift outside contract specification
Cover crop and stubble management options mapped to scheme actions and payment rates
Nitrogen use efficiency reporting per tonne of grain produced

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.

Break crop margin comparator with rotational benefit modelled over four years

Tool

Milling premium calculator

protein achieved against premium earned versus additional nitrogen cost

Calculator

Malting barley spec risk gauge showing rejection probability from live store data

Gauge

Drilling window advisor combining soil temperature, forecast and blackgrass pressure

Tool

Forward sale position chart against a rolling market price feed

Chart

End to end

How Combinable Crops 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.

1

Set the rotation and crop mix

This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
2

Select varieties against market specification

The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
3

Budget inputs and set the nutrition target

Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
4

Drill and establish

Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
5

Protect and monitor through the season

Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
6

Harvest to specification

This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
7

Store, allocate and market

Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
8

Reconcile contract performance and rejections

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.

Combinable crop grower

600 ha, Lincolnshire

Wants to know which fields will make milling spec before committing the extra nitrogen.

Grain trader

Regional merchant

Needs reliable, early sight of tonnage and spec to build a book.

Maltster procurement lead

Contract sourcing

Needs traceable, in-spec barley with a verifiable provenance and carbon figure.

Tenant farmer

150 ha FBT

Needs to justify cropping choices to a landlord with a documented margin case.

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.

England

Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026

Pay farmers for environmental actions taken alongside food production, as the principal replacement for area-based direct payments in England.

Two windows in 2026: window one from 30 June, window two from September. Defra / Rural Payments Agency Northern Ireland

Protein Crop Scheme

Encourage home-grown protein crop production to reduce imported protein dependency.

Annual application. DAERA England

Farming Equipment and Technology Fund

Contribute towards the cost of specified equipment and technology that improves productivity, slurry management or animal health and welfare.

Round-based, usually open for a defined application period. Defra / Rural Payments Agency

Rates, 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.

01Tonnes marketed in specification
02Premium captured per tonne
03Rejection rate
04Nitrogen use efficiency
05Break crop contribution to rotation margin

Questions answered

What people ask about Combinable Crops

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 Combinable Crops 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?

Commodity price volatility. Mitigated by position tracking rather than prediction. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.

Because everything shares one record, adding a neighbouring module usually costs less work than it saves.

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See Combinable Crops 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.

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