Horticulture & Protected Cropping
Horticulture: Case Studies
Worked examples showing how the module is used in practice.
The examples below are illustrative worked cases built from the module design. Named customer references are published only with written consent.
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Horticulture
The problem: Needs labour and harvest planning to move together or fruit is left on the plant.
What they do
- Plan the cropping programme against contracted volume
- Propagate or plant and record establishment
- Walk crops and record pest and disease pressure
- Apply nutrition and protection within intervals
What changes
- Saleable yield per hectare
- Grade-out percentage
- Cost per kilogram packed
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.
In the field
Horticulture, 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.
Horticulture — a walkthrough
A working pass through horticulture: 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.
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.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 4
- Linked support schemes
- 6
- Data integrations
- 6
- Measures reported
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.
- 01Saleable yield per hectare
- 02Grade-out percentage
- 03Cost per kilogram packed
- 04Labour hours per tonne
- 05Rejection and claim rate
- 06Residue compliance rate
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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Saleable yield per hectare
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 34 Median 52 Upper quartile 74
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Grade-out percentage
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 36 Median 51 Upper quartile 85
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Cost per kilogram packed
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 37 Median 61 Upper quartile 72
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Labour hours per tonne
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 37 Median 61 Upper quartile 87
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Rejection and claim rate
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 27 Median 62 Upper quartile 80
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
Government cannot currently see, in real time, where its own farming budget is going. A scheme was closed overnight because the cap had been reached, and hundreds of millions of pounds went unspent over three years because replacement schemes were not ready. The evidence for change is government's own.
See Horticulture 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