Fertilisers & Plant Nutrition
Fertilisers: For Advisers & Agents
What Fertilisers 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. Fertiliser is the largest single variable cost on most arable holdings and the most exposed to price volatility. This module manages purchasing decisions against a forward requirement, storage and security compliance, spreader calibration and application accuracy, and the response measurement that shows whether the last tonne actually paid.
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.
Buying group manager
Aggregated procurement
Needs member requirements aggregated ahead of the market.
- Convert the nutrient plan into a product requirement
- Compare products on nutrient cost
- Time and execute the purchase
- Receive, store and record compliance
Agronomist
Nutrition programme
Needs the plan and the actual application reconciled.
- Compare products on nutrient cost
- Time and execute the purchase
- Receive, store and record compliance
- Calibrate the spreader and evidence it
Machinery operator
Spreading
Needs calibration evidence for assurance and accuracy.
- Time and execute the purchase
- Receive, store and record compliance
- Calibrate the spreader and evidence it
- Apply and record accurately
End to end
How Fertilisers 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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Convert the nutrient plan into a product requirement
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Compare products on nutrient cost
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Time and execute the purchase
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Receive, store and record compliance
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Calibrate the spreader and evidence it
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Apply and record accurately
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Measure the response
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Feed learning into the next plan
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Capabilities
What Fertilisers 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
- Forward requirement forecasting from the nutrient plan across the season
- Purchase timing decision support against a rolling price series
- Product comparison on cost per kilogram of nutrient, not cost per tonne of product
Operate and monitor
- Contract and delivery management with tonnage and analysis records
- Storage compliance for ammonium nitrate including security and separation
- Spreader calibration record with tray test results and bout width verification
Comply and evidence
- Application accuracy monitoring including overlap and headland management
- Foliar and liquid nutrition programme management
- Micronutrient deficiency diagnosis and correction planning
Analyse and improve
- Response trial design to test whether the marginal input pays
- Inhibitor and coated product usage record for ammonia reduction claims
- Ammonia emission estimation for air quality reporting
Find
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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 Fertilisers
The problem: Needs to compare on nutrient cost, not headline tonne price.
What they do
- Convert the nutrient plan into a product requirement
- Compare products on nutrient cost
- Time and execute the purchase
- Receive, store and record compliance
What changes
- Cost per kilogram of nitrogen
- Coefficient of variation on spread pattern
- Nitrogen use efficiency
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.
- 01Cost per kilogram of nitrogen
- 02Coefficient of variation on spread pattern
- 03Nitrogen use efficiency
- 04Storage compliance status
- 05Marginal response value
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.