Scotland · Conditionality
Whole Farm Plan
Require farmers and crofters to review land and livestock management across defined components as a condition of support.
Requires completion of a specified number of components from a defined list including soil analysis, carbon audit, biodiversity audit, animal health and welfare plan and integrated pest management plan, phasing in over several years as a condition of direct support.
Scheme detail
What Whole Farm Plan pays, and who can claim it
| Delivering body | Scottish Government |
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| Nation | Scotland |
| Scheme type | Conditionality |
| Payment rates | Not a payment; a condition of payment. |
| Caps and limits | Not applicable. |
| Application window | Phased implementation with defined deadlines. |
| Portal | Rural Payments and Services |
Eligibility check
Could your holding claim for Whole Farm Plan?
Four questions, no account, no email. The check reports what the published rules say and flags where they are open to interpretation — it is not a decision, and it is not advice.
What the check can tell you
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Appears to meet the published criteria
On what you have told us, the published eligibility rules appear to be met. The next step is to confirm against the current scheme guidance and check the window is open.
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Depends on something we cannot see
Your answers hit a condition that turns on detail we have not asked for — commonly tenancy consent, a parcel-level designation, or an overlapping agreement. The check names which condition it is.
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Does not appear to qualify as described
One of the published criteria appears not to be met. The check says which one, because criteria change and because there is often an alternative scheme that does fit.
How Agrivencia integrates
What the platform does with Whole Farm Plan
Soil, carbon, biodiversity, animal health and crop protection modules each produce their component, and the compliance calendar tracks completion.
Scheme rules are held as data rather than written into code, so when the delivering body changes a rate, a cap or a window, Agrivencia reflects it the same day and tells you what it does to your own position.
Getting started
What you need to hand
Setting up takes about twenty minutes for a single holding. Nothing here needs to be perfect on day one; the platform will help you correct it.
Delivery
How Agrivencia is being built and proven
The programme follows the government digital service lifecycle, with an explicit gate at each stage and a documented decision to proceed, change direction or stop.
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Discovery
Understand the users and the data estate
On-farm research across all four nations, a full audit of available data sources and their licensing, and a strategic outline case. Nothing is built until the problem is evidenced.
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Alpha
Prototype the hardest things first
The identifier graph, the boundary record and the scheme engine — the three things everything else depends on — are prototyped and tested with real businesses before anything else is written.
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Private beta
Prove it in one nation with invited users
A working service used by real farms through a real scheme window, with the failure modes exposed while the cohort is small enough to support properly.
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Public beta
Open it up and extend across nations
Available to all, with the remaining nations phased in as each administration's scheme data stabilises, and full Welsh language provision from the point Wales goes live.
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Live
Scaled service with published performance
Performance data published openly, a benefits realisation review against the original case, and continuous rather than project-based improvement.
Obligation calendar
Every dated obligation, in one calendar
Windows, deadlines and recurring obligations for England. Set a different nation and the calendar reconfigures; farm across a border and it shows both, reconciled.
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February 1 entry
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3 February: Animal Health and Welfare Pathway
Rolling application.
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April 1 entry
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20 April: Adding Value Grant
Round-based.
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June 2 entries
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5 June: Farming Transformation Fund
Round-based by theme.
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15 June: Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026
Two windows in 2026: window one from 30 June, window two from September.
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July 2 entries
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14 July: Slurry Infrastructure Grant
Round-based.
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17 July: Water Management Grant
Round-based.
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October 1 entry
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5 October: Farming Equipment and Technology Fund
Round-based, usually open for a defined application period.
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November 2 entries
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12 November: Improving Farm Productivity Grant
Round-based.
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27 November: Environmental Land Management Capital Grants
Round-based, with rapid allocation once open.
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December 1 entry
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26 December: Countryside Stewardship
Rolling and round-based depending on the tier and option group.
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How we handle evidence
Where these figures come from
Agrivencia grades every figure it publishes. Primary legislation, official statistics and audit reports are treated as authoritative. Levy body and professional body data is treated as reliable. Commercial trackers and trade press are treated as indicative and labelled as such. Where sources conflict, the conflict is shown rather than resolved silently.
- Authoritative Legislation, statutory instruments, official scheme rules, national audit and public accounts reporting, departmental annual reports and accredited official statistics.
- Reliable Parliamentary committee evidence, peer-reviewed research, independent economic institutes and levy body analysis.
- Supporting Professional bodies, land agents, certification schemes and industry associations.
- Indicative Commercial market trackers and trade press, used for corroboration only and always labelled.
Payment rates, caps and windows in UK farm support change frequently and sometimes without notice. Nothing on this platform is a substitute for the current published scheme rules or for professional advice.
Free download
The Agrivencia Field Guide to UK Farm Support
A practical handbook, written for UK farm businesses, with the sources cited and the working shown. No sales call attached — the guide is the point.
See Agrivencia 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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