Soil, Land & Earth
Tenancy, Tenure & Land Markets
Who holds what, on what terms, and what it is worth.
Tenure determines scheme eligibility, capital investment decisions, succession options and lending capacity, and it is frequently the reason a good scheme opportunity cannot be taken. This module holds every agreement, its term, its restrictions and its review dates, and models the tenure consequences of any land use change before it is committed.
- 12 capabilities
- 3 linked schemes
- Offline capable
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 3
- Linked support schemes
- 5
- Data integrations
- 5
- Measures reported
The ground reality
What is actually happening in tenancy & land in the UK
In England around 54 per cent of farms are owner-occupied, 31 per cent mixed tenure and 14 per cent wholly tenanted. Tenants are frequently locked out of scheme eligibility by agreement length or landlord consent requirements, a problem the Rock Review and the Farm Tenancy Forum were established to address. Multi-year scheme agreements can bind successors and can conflict with the remaining term of a Farm Business Tenancy.
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.
In the field
Tenancy & land, 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.
Tenancy & Land — a walkthrough
A working pass through tenancy & land: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.
- 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.
Capabilities
What Tenancy & Land 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
- Agreement register covering AHA tenancies, FBTs, contract farming and share farming
- Term, break clause, rent review and notice date tracking with alerting
- Landlord consent requirement flagging before a scheme commitment is made
Operate and monitor
- Scheme agreement term versus tenancy term conflict detection
- Tenant improvement and compensation record building over the agreement life
- Rent review evidence assembly with comparable transaction data
Comply and evidence
- Contract and share farming agreement performance tracking
- Land valuation record with basis, date and valuer
- Land market transaction intelligence by region and land type
Analyse and improve
- Land acquisition and disposal appraisal with tax interaction
- Grazing licence and short-term letting management
- Succession implications of each tenure type surfaced explicitly
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.
Agreement timeline showing every term, break and review across the holding
Agreement timeline showing every term, break and review across the holding
ToolScheme versus tenancy term conflict checker
Scheme versus tenancy term conflict checker
WizardRent review comparator with regional evidence
Rent review comparator with regional evidence
ToolTenant improvement compensation estimator
Tenant improvement compensation estimator
ToolLand value trend chart by region and land classification
Land value trend chart by region and land classification
ChartEnd to end
How Tenancy & Land 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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Record every agreement and its terms
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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2
Map agreements to parcels
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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3
Diary all critical dates
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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4
Check conflicts before any commitment
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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5
Seek and record landlord consents
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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6
Build the improvement record
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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7
Prepare for review or renewal
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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8
Model the succession and disposal position
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.
Tenant farmer
10-year FBT
Needs to know whether a five-year scheme agreement fits inside the term.
Landlord
Let estate
Needs consent requests and improvement claims tracked properly.
Land agent
Rent reviews and lettings
Needs comparable evidence assembled quickly.
New entrant
Seeking land
Needs to understand what each tenure type actually permits.
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.
Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026
Pay farmers for environmental actions taken alongside food production, as the principal replacement for area-based direct payments in England.
Defra / Rural Payments Agency EnglandCountryside Stewardship
Fund more complex, targeted and bespoke habitat management than the main incentive offer supports.
Defra / Natural England / Rural Payments Agency WalesSustainable Farming Scheme
Replace area-based direct payments in Wales with a scheme rewarding sustainable land management outcomes.
Welsh Government / Rural Payments WalesRates, 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.
- 01Agreements with complete records
- 02Critical dates met
- 03Consents obtained before commitment
- 04Improvement value recorded
- 05Scheme conflicts avoided
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
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.
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Agreements with complete records
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 35 Median 54 Upper quartile 83
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Critical dates met
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 28 Median 57 Upper quartile 84
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Consents obtained before commitment
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 25 Median 47 Upper quartile 68
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Improvement value recorded
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 20 Median 50 Upper quartile 82
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Scheme conflicts avoided
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 26 Median 47 Upper quartile 88
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
Questions answered
What people ask about Tenancy & Land
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 Tenancy & Land 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?
Missed notice dates. Mitigated by hard diary alerting. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
Documents
Take it away with you
Everything here is printable and works on a kitchen table with no signal. Where a document asks for an email address, it says so on the button rather than after you press it.
Tenure and Schemes: What Tenants Can Actually Sign Up To
The practical handbook for tenancy & land: what the rules require, what the evidence has to show, and the mistakes that cost people money.
tenancy & land — evidence checklist
Every document an audit or a claim asks for, in the order it is asked for, with the validity period of each.
tenancy & land — record template
The record structure the module uses, as a spreadsheet, so a business not yet on the platform can start keeping it correctly today.
Data model reference
Entities, fields and integration points for tenancy & land, for advisers and software partners.
See Tenancy & Land 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.
- Free tier available
- No card required
- Your data stays yours