Farm Accounts, MTD & Benchmarking
Accounts & Benchmarking: Questions Answered
Straight answers to the questions people actually ask.
Including the awkward ones. If something is a genuine limitation of the module we would rather say so here than let it be discovered later.
Questions answered
What people ask about Accounts & Benchmarking
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 Accounts & Benchmarking 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?
Arbitrary cost apportionment distorting comparison. Mitigated by documented, consistent rules. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
Everything included
The full capability list, grouped
Record and plan3
- Enterprise-level cost and revenue allocation with defined apportionment rules
- Field-level costing rolled up to enterprise and whole farm
- Gross margin and net margin by enterprise per hectare and per head
Operate and monitor3
- Making Tax Digital compliant digital record keeping and submission
- VAT handling including agricultural flat rate considerations
- Cashflow, profit and loss and balance sheet reporting
Comply and evidence3
- Benchmarking against published comparable data with like-for-like grouping
- Support and scheme income shown separately from trading income
- Capital allowance and asset depreciation tracking
Analyse and improve3
- Budget preparation with variance reporting through the year
- Payroll and labour cost allocation to enterprise
- Integration with mainstream accounting packages rather than replacing them
Detail
The short version
A whole-farm profit figure conceals which enterprise is subsidising which. This module allocates costs and revenues to enterprises and to fields, produces gross and net margins that stand comparison with published benchmarks, and handles the digital record keeping and submission obligations that now apply to income tax.
Average farm business income figures conceal wide divergence between enterprises: general cropping incomes have been forecast to halve in a single year while dairy and lowland grazing held or improved, and agri-environment income has risen to around thirty per cent of average farm income. Without enterprise-level accounting, a business cannot see which of those movements applies to it. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax is phasing in, adding a digital record keeping obligation.
Everything Accounts & Benchmarking 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.
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.
Free download
Which Enterprise Is Actually Paying? Enterprise Costing and Benchmarking
A practical handbook, written for UK farm businesses, with the sources cited and the working shown. No sales call attached — the guide is the point.
See Accounts & Benchmarking 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