Crops & Cultivation
Cereals, Oilseeds & Pulses
Wheat, barley, oats, oilseed rape, beans and peas — planned, protected and marketed.
A crop-specific layer over the cropping record, carrying the agronomy, market specification and scheme interactions particular to each combinable crop. It answers the questions a general farm management system cannot: whether this variety will hit milling protein on this soil, whether the break crop is worth it against the rotation, and what the malting contract will actually reject on.
- 12 capabilities
- 3 linked schemes
- Offline capable
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 3
- Linked support schemes
- 6
- Data integrations
- 5
- Measures reported
The ground reality
What is actually happening in combinable crops in the UK
Cereals occupy roughly three million hectares in England alone, a third of the cropped area, and combinable crop margins are now routinely negative before support. Defra Farm Business Income data has shown general cropping farms forecast to halve in a single year, with crop output falling while livestock output rose. On thin Cotswold brash and similar droughty limestone soils, spring malting barley frequently outperforms a marginal second wheat, and the difference between the two decisions is often larger than any input saving available elsewhere.
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
Combinable crops, 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.
Combinable Crops — a walkthrough
A working pass through combinable crops: 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 Combinable Crops 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
- Crop-by-crop agronomy libraries for wheat, barley, oats, oilseed rape, beans, peas and linseed
- Milling and malting specification tracker with protein, Hagberg, specific weight and nitrogen targets
- Variety performance comparison filtered by region, soil type, drilling date and disease pressure
Operate and monitor
- Break crop economics comparing rotational benefit against direct margin
- Flea beetle and cabbage stem risk model for oilseed rape establishment decisions
- Pulse nitrogen credit calculation carried forward into the following crop nutrition plan
Comply and evidence
- Grain contract manager with tonnage, spec, movement window and premium tracking
- Forward selling position tracker across contracts, pools and spot sales
- Storage allocation by bin, by spec and by contract
Analyse and improve
- Rejection risk alerting when store conditions drift outside contract specification
- Cover crop and stubble management options mapped to scheme actions and payment rates
- Nitrogen use efficiency reporting per tonne of grain produced
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.
Break crop margin comparator with rotational benefit modelled over four years
Break crop margin comparator with rotational benefit modelled over four years
ToolMilling premium calculator
protein achieved against premium earned versus additional nitrogen cost
CalculatorMalting barley spec risk gauge showing rejection probability from live store data
Malting barley spec risk gauge showing rejection probability from live store data
GaugeDrilling window advisor combining soil temperature, forecast and blackgrass pressure
Drilling window advisor combining soil temperature, forecast and blackgrass pressure
ToolForward sale position chart against a rolling market price feed
Forward sale position chart against a rolling market price feed
ChartEnd to end
How Combinable Crops 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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Set the rotation and crop mix
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Select varieties against market specification
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Budget inputs and set the nutrition target
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Drill and establish
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Protect and monitor through the season
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Harvest to specification
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Store, allocate and market
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Reconcile contract performance and rejections
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.
Combinable crop grower
600 ha, Lincolnshire
Wants to know which fields will make milling spec before committing the extra nitrogen.
Grain trader
Regional merchant
Needs reliable, early sight of tonnage and spec to build a book.
Maltster procurement lead
Contract sourcing
Needs traceable, in-spec barley with a verifiable provenance and carbon figure.
Tenant farmer
150 ha FBT
Needs to justify cropping choices to a landlord with a documented margin case.
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 Northern IrelandProtein Crop Scheme
Encourage home-grown protein crop production to reduce imported protein dependency.
DAERA EnglandFarming Equipment and Technology Fund
Contribute towards the cost of specified equipment and technology that improves productivity, slurry management or animal health and welfare.
Defra / Rural Payments AgencyRates, 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.
- 01Tonnes marketed in specification
- 02Premium captured per tonne
- 03Rejection rate
- 04Nitrogen use efficiency
- 05Break crop contribution to rotation margin
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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Tonnes marketed in specification
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 20 Median 56 Upper quartile 83
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Premium captured per tonne
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 21 Median 61 Upper quartile 78
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Rejection rate
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 25 Median 53 Upper quartile 77
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Nitrogen use efficiency
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 34 Median 45 Upper quartile 72
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Break crop contribution to rotation margin
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 33 Median 52 Upper quartile 86
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
Obligation calendar
What combinable crops 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.
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January 1 entry
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21 January: Protein Crop Scheme
Annual application.
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March 1 entry
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7 March: Budget inputs and set the nutrition target
A recurring step in combinable crops.
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April 1 entry
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20 April: Adding Value Grant
Round-based.
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June 3 entries
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5 June: Farming Transformation Fund
Round-based by theme.
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8 June: Select varieties against market specification
A recurring step in combinable crops.
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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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August 1 entry
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14 August: Set the rotation and crop mix
A recurring step in combinable crops.
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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 3 entries
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12 November: Improving Farm Productivity Grant
Round-based.
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24 November: Drill and establish
A recurring step in combinable crops.
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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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Questions answered
What people ask about Combinable Crops
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 Combinable Crops 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?
Commodity price volatility. Mitigated by position tracking rather than prediction. 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.
Break Crops, Milling Premiums and the Real Rotation Margin
The practical handbook for combinable crops: what the rules require, what the evidence has to show, and the mistakes that cost people money.
combinable crops — evidence checklist
Every document an audit or a claim asks for, in the order it is asked for, with the validity period of each.
combinable crops — 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 combinable crops, for advisers and software partners.
See Combinable Crops 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