Data, APIs & Integrations
Data & Integrations: Rules & Compliance
The rules that apply, the evidence they demand and how it is assembled.
Compliance in UK farming is mostly a records problem rather than a practice problem — the work is usually done correctly and evidenced badly. The platform's strategy is to orchestrate rather than replace. This module manages every inbound and outbound integration, documents the licensing and cost of each data source honestly, and provides the public API and developer programme that lets other systems build on the platform rather than around it.
Detail
The regulatory position
The platform's strategy is to orchestrate rather than replace. This module manages every inbound and outbound integration, documents the licensing and cost of each data source honestly, and provides the public API and developer programme that lets other systems build on the platform rather than around it.
The UK has no single agricultural data stack; its equivalent is assembled from many separate services. Some are authoritative and should be integrated rather than rebuilt — livestock traceability, mapping, weather, market intelligence, carbon codes and the biodiversity register among them. Some carry real commercial cost: Ordnance Survey licensing is free at the point of use for public sector members but chargeable for a private platform, which must operate as an OS Partner.
Everything Data & Integrations records is written into the same platform data spine as every other module, which is why a single entry can satisfy an operational need, a scheme evidence requirement, an assurance clause and a carbon activity line at once. That is the whole design premise: the work is already being done, and it is the recording of it that is duplicated.
Before you start
What you will need, and what the module handles for you
Most of this comes across automatically once your holding is registered. The list is here so nothing arrives as a surprise.
Eligibility check
Could your holding claim for data & integrations?
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.
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.
Digital and Data Modernisation in Farm Support
Modernise the digital systems through which farm support is delivered.
Defra, DSIT and the devolved administrations EnglandFarming Innovation Programme
Fund research and development that solves practical problems for farmers and growers.
Defra with Innovate UKRates, caps and windows change frequently and sometimes without notice. Always confirm against the current published scheme rules before applying.
Working view
Data & Integrations, at a glance
The numbers you would check before doing anything else in data & integrations. Each one is live against your own record, and each one tells you where it came from.
Choose a view
Integrations live and healthy
12
+6.0%
API uptime
41 days
−2 days
target under 37
Third-party developers active
13
+5.0%
Data licensing compliance
82 %
+4 pts
target 95%
Cost per thousand API calls
£13,987
+6.4%
What needs attention
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Action needed
No guaranteed public production API for some government services
mitigated by partnership routes and user-mediated upload fallbacks
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For information
Ordnance Survey licensing cost as a private platform
modelled explicitly as a critical-path commercial dependency
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For information
Data redistribution breaching licence terms
mitigated by a licensing register enforced in code
Risks, stated plainly
What could go wrong, and what we do about it
Every one of these is a real constraint rather than a hypothetical. They are listed because a platform that hides them is harder to trust than one that names them.
| The risk | What we do about it |
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| No guaranteed public production API for some government services | mitigated by partnership routes and user-mediated upload fallbacks |
| Ordnance Survey licensing cost as a private platform | modelled explicitly as a critical-path commercial dependency |
| Data redistribution breaching licence terms | mitigated by a licensing register enforced in code |
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.
Questions answered
What people ask about Data & Integrations
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 Data & Integrations 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?
No guaranteed public production API for some government services. Mitigated by partnership routes and user-mediated upload fallbacks. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
See Data & Integrations 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