Grassland & Forage

Grassland & Forage: Features & Capabilities

Every capability in Grassland & Forage, grouped by what it is for.

Grassland & Forage carries 12 capabilities and 5 interactive tools. They are grouped below by what they are for rather than by which screen they live on, because the underlying record is shared.

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Capabilities

What Grassland & Forage 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

Grass cover measurement with plate meter, sward stick and satellite-derived biomass
Rotational grazing planner with residency, rest period and pre- and post-grazing cover targets
Feed wedge visualisation with surplus and deficit identification

Operate and monitor

Annual forage budget balancing growth curve against livestock demand
Silage and haylage clamp management with dry matter, ME, protein and fermentation quality
Reseed cost and payback model against measured production uplift

Comply and evidence

Herbal ley and multi-species sward planning with scheme action mapping
Clover content assessment and nitrogen fixation credit
Grazing infrastructure planning — paddocks, tracks, water points and fencing

Analyse and improve

Nutrient offtake and return modelling across the grazing platform
Buffer feeding decision support linked to the livestock ration module
Soil compaction and poaching risk mapping by field and by season

In the field

Grassland & forage, as it actually looks

Photography from working UK holdings alongside the interface that records it. Every frame below is a commissioned slot: the brief is stated until the photograph is taken.

Grassland & Forage — a walkthrough

A working pass through grassland & forage: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.

Film in production

Captions · Audio described

0:00 What the module is for
0:48 Entering the record
2:05 Where it appears next
3:20 The evidence pack

Photography slots state their own brief until the shot is commissioned, so the layout never shifts when real images arrive.

In practice

Six things Grassland & Forage changes on day one

None of these requires a new process. They all come from recording the work you already do, once, in a form the rest of the platform can use.

Grass cover measurement with plate

Grass cover measurement with plate meter, sward stick and satellite-derived biomass.

Rotational grazing planner with residency

Rotational grazing planner with residency, rest period and pre- and post-grazing cover targets.

Feed wedge visualisation with surplus

Feed wedge visualisation with surplus and deficit identification.

Annual forage budget balancing growth

Annual forage budget balancing growth curve against livestock demand.

Silage and haylage clamp management

Silage and haylage clamp management with dry matter, ME, protein and fermentation quality.

Reseed cost and payback model

Reseed cost and payback model against measured production uplift.

By nation

The same job, four different sets of rules

Delivered by: Defra, the Rural Payments Agency, Natural England, the Environment Agency and the Forestry Commission.

Main scheme: Environmental Land Management, with the Sustainable Farming Incentive as the principal offer alongside Countryside Stewardship, capital grants and Landscape Recovery.

Delinked payments end after 2027. Windows have closed at short notice before, so budget-fill status is worth watching.

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.

Feed wedge chart updating live from cover measurements

Chart

Grazing rotation planner with drag-and-drop paddock sequencing

Builder

Forage budget simulator with stocking rate and growth rate sliders

Tool

Reseed payback calculator across a seven-year ley life

Calculator

Silage quality dashboard mapped against ration requirement

Map

Benchmarking

How this compares with businesses like yours

A cohort is only useful if it is genuinely comparable, so it is built from farm type, soil grade, region and scale rather than from whoever happens to have signed up. Your own figure is never shown to anyone else.

Sample

Tonnes of dry matter grown per hectare

Your figure appears here

Lower quartile 26 Median 58 Upper quartile 73
Utilised grass per hectare

Your figure appears here

Lower quartile 37 Median 57 Upper quartile 76
Milk or liveweight gain from forage

Your figure appears here

Lower quartile 27 Median 58 Upper quartile 78
Cost per tonne of dry matter

Your figure appears here

Lower quartile 35 Median 55 Upper quartile 87
Days at grazing

Your figure appears here

Lower quartile 35 Median 47 Upper quartile 87

How the cohort is built

Farm type: Matched
Soil grade: Matched
Region: Matched
Scale band: Matched
Cohort size: Minimum 12 businesses, or no comparison is shown

Compared

Where Agrivencia differs from what already exists

The UK already has strong point tools. What it does not have is one record spanning them, or one view spanning four nations. That gap is the entire proposition.

	Agrivencia	Single-purpose farm software	Government portals
Covers all four nations	Yes, each as a first-class tenancy	Usually one nation	One administration each
One record across domains	Yes — 84 modules, one data spine	Within its own domain only	Within its own scheme only
Scheme rules held as data	Yes, updated the day rules change	Rarely	Authoritative but not reusable
Assurance evidence auto-assembled	Yes, from operational records	Partially, per scheme	Not applicable
Whole-farm income optimisation	Across schemes and nature markets together	No	No
Offline field capture	Yes, designed first	Varies	Generally no
Marketplace and commerce	Multivendor with verification and escrow	Separate platforms	Not applicable
Farmer-owned data export	Published charter, open formats	Varies considerably	Limited

This comparison describes categories of product rather than named competitors, and reflects our own assessment. Any specific product should be evaluated on its current published capability.

Data model

What the module records, and how it connects

These are the entities the module maintains. Because they are shared across the platform rather than owned by one screen, a record created here is available everywhere it is relevant.

Paddock
Cover measurement
Grazing event
Ley
Cut
Clamp
Forage analysis
Stock class demand

Every entity carries a full audit trail and is exportable in open formats under the Farm Data Charter.

Questions answered

What people ask about Grassland & Forage

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 Grassland & Forage 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?

Measurement fatigue. Mitigated by fast mobile capture and satellite fallback. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.

See Grassland & Forage 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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