Forestry, Trees & Hedgerows

Forestry & Woodland Creation

Plant it once, fund it four ways, and keep the felling licence in order.

Woodland creation is now one of the few land use changes with four simultaneous income streams — creation grant, maintenance payment, carbon units and biodiversity units — and four separate compliance regimes to match. This module carries site design, species selection, grant application, planting record, establishment monitoring, felling licence management and the long-term stocking record that every one of those income streams depends on.

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12 capabilities
4 linked schemes
Flagship module
Offline capable

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

The ground reality

What is actually happening in forestry & Woodland in the UK

Statutory targets require tree canopy and woodland cover to rise by 0.33 per cent of land area by 2030, a net gain of roughly 43,000 hectares from a 14.9 per cent baseline. The Woodland Carbon Code has recorded 907 validated projects creating 45,467 hectares of new woodland, carrying around 14.17 million Pending Issuance Units but only about 12,700 verified Woodland Carbon Units, because most projects are too young to have sequestered measurable carbon. Average unit price rose to £28.32 in 2025 from £26.85 the previous year.

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 Forestry & Woodland 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

Woodland creation design with species mix, spacing, provenance and zoning
Site suitability assessment against soil, exposure, designation and deep peat exclusion
Environmental Impact Assessment screening and consultation workflow

Operate and monitor

Grant application assembly across the England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland offers
Planting record by compartment with species, provenance, protection and date
Establishment monitoring with beat-up requirement calculation

Comply and evidence

Deer, squirrel and rabbit protection planning and damage recording
Felling licence application, thinning plan and compliance tracking
UK Forestry Standard compliance evidence assembly

Analyse and improve

Woodland Carbon Code project registration, validation and verification tracking
Timber inventory, growth modelling and yield class assessment
Woodland management plan authoring and periodic review scheduling

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.

Woodland creation design canvas with compartment drawing and species allocation

Tool

Grant stacking calculator showing creation, maintenance, carbon and biodiversity income together

Calculator

Carbon sequestration projection by species mix and yield class over the project life

Tool

Pending Issuance Unit versus verified unit position chart

Chart

Felling licence eligibility and exemption checker

Wizard

End to end

How Forestry & Woodland 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

Assess site suitability and constraints

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

Design the woodland and select species

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

Screen for EIA and consult

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

Apply for creation funding

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

Plant and record by compartment

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

Protect, monitor and beat up

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

Register and validate the carbon project

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

Manage, thin and verify over the project life

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.

Estate manager

900 ha estate with 200 ha woodland

Needs creation, carbon and BNG income assessed together before committing land.

Livestock farmer

Planting 12 ha of marginal ground

Needs to know the payment covers the lost grazing and the fencing.

Forestry agent

Multi-client woodland creation

Needs application assembly and monitoring across a portfolio.

Carbon buyer

Corporate offtake

Needs transparency on validated versus verified unit status.

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.

United Kingdom

Woodland Carbon Code

Provide a quality assurance standard for woodland creation projects generating verifiable carbon units.

Rolling registration. Scottish Forestry on behalf of all four governments England

England Woodland Creation Offer

Fund the creation of new woodland, with additional payments for public benefits.

Rolling application. Forestry Commission England

Countryside Stewardship

Fund more complex, targeted and bespoke habitat management than the main incentive offer supports.

Rolling and round-based depending on the tier and option group. Defra / Natural England / Rural Payments Agency Scotland

Forestry Grant Scheme

Fund woodland creation, management and tree health work in Scotland.

Rolling application. Scottish Forestry

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.

01Hectares created
02Establishment survival rate
03Carbon units validated and verified
04Grant income per hectare
05Woodland management plan currency

Try it now

Woodland Income Stacking Calculator

See creation grant, maintenance payment, carbon units and biodiversity units modelled together over the project life, against the agricultural margin you give up.

How this is calculated

Capital and maintenance are applied at published rates for the woodland type and area. Carbon income applies your assumed unit price to modelled sequestration for the species mix, discounted for the delay between planting and verification. Forgone margin is the current gross margin over the modelling period.

Carbon units are mostly pending rather than verified for many years after planting. Treat carbon income as deferred and uncertain, and note that woodland creation is generally irreversible.

— Creation and capital income £

— Maintenance payments over the period £

— Indicative carbon income £

— Agricultural margin forgone £

— Net position over the period £

Questions answered

What people ask about Forestry & Woodland

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 Forestry & Woodland 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?

Deep peat and designation exclusions. Mitigated by pre-application constraint screening. 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.

Agroforestry & Silvopasture Trees and farming on the same hectare, without losing the scheme claim. Tree Health & Biosecurity Ash dieback, plant passports and the pests already on their way. Hedgerows & Field Boundaries Measured in metres, paid in metres, evidenced in metres. Crop Farming & Precision Agriculture One cropping record that feeds agronomy, assurance and scheme evidence at once. Soil Health & Structure Sampling, structure and the 2030 target nobody has a baseline for. Land, Mapping & Field Boundaries The canonical boundary graph every other module reads from.

See Forestry & Woodland 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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