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Air temperature 11 °C
Feels like 9 °C
Conditions Light cloud
Rain today 2.4 mm
Rain last 7 days 18.6 mm
Season to date 412 mm
Wind speed 9 mph
Wind direction WSW
Gusting 17 mph
Humidity 78 %
Pressure 1014 hPa
Delta T 3.1 Evaporative potential during spraying. Outside 2 to 8 the application window is compromised.
UV index 2
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Field conditions
Soil temperature at 10cm 8.4 °C
Soil moisture deficit 26 mm
Growing degree days 742 GDD
Frost risk tonight Low
Spray window Open Combines wind speed, Delta T, temperature and rainfall forecast against label conditions.
Travelling conditions Marginal
Workable days this month 11 days
Blight risk Low
Grass growth rate 38 kg DM/ha/day
Latest satellite pass 2 days ago
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Markets and prices
Feed wheat 184.50 £/t
Feed barley 168.00 £/t
Oilseed rape 412.00 £/t
Farmgate milk 43.20 p/l
Deadweight beef 612 p/kg
Deadweight lamb 698 p/kg
Deadweight pig 214 p/kg
Ammonium nitrate 378 £/t
Red diesel 72.4 p/l
Electricity 25.8 p/kWh
Woodland carbon unit 28.32 £
Biodiversity unit 25,000 £
Schemes and deadlines
Open scheme windows 3
Budget allocated 52 % How much of the current scheme budget has been committed. Published at 25, 50 and 75 per cent.
Next deadline 15 May
Claim status In progress
Payments due 18,420 £
Compliance score 86 %

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Farm Accounts, MTD & Benchmarking

Accounts & Benchmarking: For Advisers & Agents

What Accounts & Benchmarking changes for agronomists, agents, vets and consultants.

Advisers need scoped access, defensible records and a way to work across a client base without re-keying. 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.

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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.

01

Bank relationship manager

Reviewing performance

Needs to see which enterprises generate and consume cash.

  1. Set the enterprise structure and apportionment rules
  2. Record transactions with enterprise coding
  3. Allocate shared costs on defined bases
  4. Reconcile physical and financial records
02

Business consultant

Benchmarking clients

Needs comparable enterprise data across a client base.

  1. Record transactions with enterprise coding
  2. Allocate shared costs on defined bases
  3. Reconcile physical and financial records
  4. Produce enterprise margins
03

Farm accountant

Preparing accounts

Needs physical and financial records reconciled.

  1. Allocate shared costs on defined bases
  2. Reconcile physical and financial records
  3. Produce enterprise margins
  4. Benchmark against comparable businesses

End to end

How Accounts & Benchmarking 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. 1

    Set the enterprise structure and apportionment rules

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

  2. 2

    Record transactions with enterprise coding

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

  3. 3

    Allocate shared costs on defined bases

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

  4. 4

    Reconcile physical and financial records

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

  5. 5

    Produce enterprise margins

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

  6. 6

    Benchmark against comparable businesses

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

  7. 7

    Report and submit as required

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

  8. 8

    Budget and monitor variance

    The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.

Capabilities

What Accounts & Benchmarking 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

  • 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 monitor

  • 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 evidence

  • 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 improve

  • Budget preparation with variance reporting through the year
  • Payroll and labour cost allocation to enterprise
  • Integration with mainstream accounting packages rather than replacing them

Obligation calendar

What accounts & benchmarking 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.

  • Scheme window or deadline
  • Recurring farm obligation
  • Statutory return

  1. March 2 entries

    • 8 March: Reconcile physical and financial records

      A recurring step in accounts & benchmarking.

    • 18 March: Set the enterprise structure and apportionment rules

      A recurring step in accounts & benchmarking.

  2. April 2 entries

    • 20 April: Adding Value Grant

      Round-based.

      Defra / Rural Payments Agency england

    • 27 April: Allocate shared costs on defined bases

      A recurring step in accounts & benchmarking.

  3. June 2 entries

  4. July 2 entries

  5. August 1 entry

  6. September 1 entry

    • 2 September: Record transactions with enterprise coding

      A recurring step in accounts & benchmarking.

  7. October 1 entry

  8. November 2 entries

  9. December 1 entry

    • 26 December: Countryside Stewardship

      Rolling and round-based depending on the tier and option group.

      Defra / Natural England / Rural Payments Agency england

Windows move, and sometimes at short notice. Every entry links to the publishing body so you can confirm the current date before you rely on it.

Worked example

How a business like yours would use Accounts & Benchmarking

Farm business ownerDeciding what to stop doing
Worked example

The problem: Needs enterprise margins, not a single farm profit figure.

What they do

  1. Set the enterprise structure and apportionment rules
  2. Record transactions with enterprise coding
  3. Allocate shared costs on defined bases
  4. Reconcile physical and financial records

What changes

  • Gross margin per hectare by enterprise
  • Cost of production per unit
  • Support income as a proportion of profit

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.

Arable farm managerEast of England

The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.

Mixed farmerMidlands

We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.

Livestock producerWelsh border

Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.

Dairy farmerSouth West

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.

  • 01Gross margin per hectare by enterprise
  • 02Cost of production per unit
  • 03Support income as a proportion of profit
  • 04Budget variance
  • 05Return on capital employed

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.

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Next deadlines
15 May Single application form — Wales and Northern Ireland Window 2 open Sustainable Farming Incentive — England, 52% allocated Ongoing Capital grants — allocation moves fast once open Annual Whole Farm Plan components — Scotland, phased deadlines 6 April Inheritance relief cap takes effect — UK wide