Peatland & Paludiculture
Peatland: For Farmers
What Peatland changes for the person actually doing the work.
For the person running the business, the test of any farm software is whether it removes work or adds it. Drained lowland peat and degraded upland peat are the single largest agricultural emissions source per hectare in the UK, and restoration is now among the best-funded land use changes available. This module maps peat depth and condition, models restoration and water table options, manages Peatland Code project registration, and appraises paludiculture as a productive alternative to abandonment.
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.
Upland farmer
Degraded blanket bog
Needs restoration income to exceed the lost grazing value.
- Map peat depth and condition
- Estimate current emissions
- Model restoration and paludiculture options
- Appraise against agricultural margin
Lowland peat grower
Drained fen vegetables
Needs a viable alternative before the water table rises.
- Estimate current emissions
- Model restoration and paludiculture options
- Appraise against agricultural margin
- Register the Peatland Code project
Restoration project developer
Aggregating sites
Needs consistent condition assessment across a portfolio.
- Model restoration and paludiculture options
- Appraise against agricultural margin
- Register the Peatland Code project
- Fund and deliver the works
End to end
How Peatland 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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Map peat depth and condition
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Estimate current emissions
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Model restoration and paludiculture options
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Appraise against agricultural margin
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Register the Peatland Code project
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Fund and deliver the works
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Validate and begin monitoring
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Verify and issue units over the project life
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Capabilities
What Peatland 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
- Peat depth mapping and condition classification
- Emissions estimation by peat type, depth, water table and land use
- Restoration option modelling — grip blocking, gully blocking, re-vegetation and re-wetting
Operate and monitor
- Water table management planning with hydrological constraint mapping
- Peatland Code project registration, validation and verification tracking
- Paludiculture crop appraisal including sphagnum, reed, typha and wet grazing
Comply and evidence
- Agricultural productivity trade-off modelling against restoration income
- Grant application assembly across restoration funding routes
- Contractor specification and works verification
Analyse and improve
- Long-term monitoring with water table dipwell and vegetation survey records
- Stacking assessment against other public and private income
- Neighbour and catchment coordination for landscape-scale restoration
Find
Find surveyors and laboratories
Filter by type, nation, distance and accreditation. Results are ranked by relevance to your holding once your holding record exists, and alphabetically before that.
5 records shown from the platform’s own register
- Module Soil Health & Structure Flagship
- Module Soil Carbon & Organic Matter Core
- Module Land, Mapping & Field Boundaries Flagship
- Module Tenancy, Tenure & Land Markets Core
- Module Peatland & Paludiculture Core
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Peatland
The problem: Needs restoration income to exceed the lost grazing value.
What they do
- Map peat depth and condition
- Estimate current emissions
- Model restoration and paludiculture options
- Appraise against agricultural margin
What changes
- Hectares restored
- Water table depth achieved
- Emissions reduction estimated
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.
- 01Hectares restored
- 02Water table depth achieved
- 03Emissions reduction estimated
- 04Units validated and verified
- 05Net income versus prior land use
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.