Skip to the main content Skip to the instrument panel
0 Help Sign inCreate an account
Weather and agronomy
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
Next 24 hours —
Five day outlook —
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
Time and season
Time —
Date —
Sunrise —
Sunset —
Day length —
Moon phase —
Season —
Week —
To harvest —
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 %

Instrument values are sample data until your holding is connected to a live source. How the data connections work

Water Quality & Nutrient Neutrality

Water Quality: For Advisers & Agents

What Water Quality 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. Agricultural nutrient and sediment loss to water is simultaneously a compliance risk, a reputational risk and — in designated catchments — a source of tradable nutrient credits. This module tracks loss risk by field, evidences mitigation, and manages nutrient neutrality credit generation and sale where the catchment supports it.

Book a demonstration Back to Water Quality

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

Developer

Seeking nutrient credits

Needs registered, verifiable credits with clear provenance.

  1. Assess loss risk across the holding
  2. Identify critical source areas
  3. Select and cost mitigation measures
  4. Implement and evidence
02

Water company adviser

Raw water protection

Needs targeted intervention where it will most reduce load.

  1. Identify critical source areas
  2. Select and cost mitigation measures
  3. Implement and evidence
  4. Sample and monitor water quality
03

Dairy farmer

Slurry management

Needs containment compliance evidenced continuously.

  1. Select and cost mitigation measures
  2. Implement and evidence
  3. Sample and monitor water quality
  4. Assess credit generation potential

End to end

How Water Quality 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

    Assess loss risk across the holding

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

  2. 2

    Identify critical source areas

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

  3. 3

    Select and cost mitigation measures

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

  4. 4

    Implement and evidence

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

  5. 5

    Sample and monitor water quality

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

  6. 6

    Assess credit generation potential

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

  7. 7

    Register and verify credits

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

  8. 8

    Trade and report

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

Capabilities

What Water Quality 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

  • Field-level nutrient and sediment loss risk assessment
  • Critical source area identification using terrain, soil and land use
  • Mitigation measure library with effectiveness evidence and cost

Operate and monitor

  • Buffer strip, sediment trap and swale design and recording
  • Farming Rules for Water compliance evidence
  • Nitrate Vulnerable Zone requirement tracking where applicable

Comply and evidence

  • Catchment sensitive farming engagement and endorsement record
  • Water sampling programme with laboratory results and trend
  • Nutrient neutrality credit calculation and registration

Analyse and improve

  • Credit sale process management with buyer matching
  • Pollution incident recording and response documentation
  • Slurry and silage effluent containment compliance evidence

Obligation calendar

What water quality 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. April 2 entries

    • 20 April: Adding Value Grant

      Round-based.

      Defra / Rural Payments Agency england

    • 20 April: Assess loss risk across the holding

      A recurring step in water quality.

  2. May 1 entry

    • 16 May: Identify critical source areas

      A recurring step in water quality.

  3. June 3 entries

    • 3 June: Select and cost mitigation measures

      A recurring step in water quality.

    • 5 June: Farming Transformation Fund

      Round-based by theme.

      Defra / Rural Payments Agency england

    • 15 June: Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026

      Two windows in 2026: window one from 30 June, window two from September.

      Defra / Rural Payments Agency england

  4. July 3 entries

  5. October 2 entries

    • 5 October: Farming Equipment and Technology Fund

      Round-based, usually open for a defined application period.

      Defra / Rural Payments Agency england

    • 27 October: Implement and evidence

      A recurring step in water quality.

  6. November 2 entries

  7. 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 Water Quality

Catchment farmerDesignated nutrient neutrality catchment
Worked example

The problem: Wants to know whether credits are worth more than the land use they replace.

What they do

  1. Assess loss risk across the holding
  2. Identify critical source areas
  3. Select and cost mitigation measures
  4. Implement and evidence

What changes

  • Critical source areas mitigated
  • Nutrient load reduction estimated
  • Compliance rate against water rules

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.

  • 01Critical source areas mitigated
  • 02Nutrient load reduction estimated
  • 03Compliance rate against water rules
  • 04Credits generated and sold
  • 05Pollution incidents

Free assessment

Find out where you stand in about ten minutes

A structured assessment producing a scored report with a prioritised list of what to fix first, and what it is worth fixing.

We will only use these details for what you asked for. You can withdraw consent at any time and we will delete the record. See the Privacy Notice.

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