Soil, Land & Earth
Peatland & Paludiculture
The highest-emitting land you farm, and the best-funded to fix.
Drained lowland peat and degraded upland peat are the single largest agricultural emissions source per hectare in the UK, and restoration is now among the best-funded land use changes available. This module maps peat depth and condition, models restoration and water table options, manages Peatland Code project registration, and appraises paludiculture as a productive alternative to abandonment.
- 12 capabilities
- 4 linked schemes
- Offline capable
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 4
- Linked support schemes
- 5
- Data integrations
- 5
- Measures reported
The ground reality
What is actually happening in peatland in the UK
The Climate Change Committee's Balanced Pathway recommends 55 per cent of peatlands restored or re-wetted by 2040, up from 23 per cent in 2023. The Peatland Code has recorded 408 registered projects covering 58,860 hectares and 12.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, with an average unit price of £39.57 in 2025 — although that average is skewed by a small number of large transactions and rests on voluntary disclosure.
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
Peatland, 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.
Peatland — a walkthrough
A working pass through peatland: 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 Peatland 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
- Peat depth mapping and condition classification
- Emissions estimation by peat type, depth, water table and land use
- Restoration option modelling — grip blocking, gully blocking, re-vegetation and re-wetting
Operate and monitor
- Water table management planning with hydrological constraint mapping
- Peatland Code project registration, validation and verification tracking
- Paludiculture crop appraisal including sphagnum, reed, typha and wet grazing
Comply and evidence
- Agricultural productivity trade-off modelling against restoration income
- Grant application assembly across restoration funding routes
- Contractor specification and works verification
Analyse and improve
- Long-term monitoring with water table dipwell and vegetation survey records
- Stacking assessment against other public and private income
- Neighbour and catchment coordination for landscape-scale restoration
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.
Peat depth and condition map with emissions overlay
Peat depth and condition map with emissions overlay
MapRestoration income versus lost agricultural margin comparator
Restoration income versus lost agricultural margin comparator
ToolWater table scenario model showing emissions response
Water table scenario model showing emissions response
ToolPeatland Code unit projection with price sensitivity
Peatland Code unit projection with price sensitivity
ToolPaludiculture enterprise appraisal calculator
Paludiculture enterprise appraisal calculator
CalculatorEnd to end
How Peatland 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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Map peat depth and condition
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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2
Estimate current emissions
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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3
Model restoration and paludiculture options
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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4
Appraise against agricultural margin
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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5
Register the Peatland Code project
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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6
Fund and deliver the works
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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7
Validate and begin monitoring
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Verify and issue units over the project life
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.
Upland farmer
Degraded blanket bog
Needs restoration income to exceed the lost grazing value.
Lowland peat grower
Drained fen vegetables
Needs a viable alternative before the water table rises.
Restoration project developer
Aggregating sites
Needs consistent condition assessment across a portfolio.
Water company catchment lead
Raw water quality
Needs coordinated restoration at catchment scale.
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.
Peatland Code
Provide a standard for peatland restoration projects generating verifiable carbon units.
IUCN UK Peatland Programme EnglandNature for Climate Peatland Restoration
Fund peatland restoration in England to reduce emissions and improve condition.
Defra / Natural England EnglandCountryside Stewardship
Fund more complex, targeted and bespoke habitat management than the main incentive offer supports.
Defra / Natural England / Rural Payments Agency ScotlandPeatland ACTION
Fund peatland restoration across Scotland.
NatureScot and partnersRates, 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.
- 01Hectares restored
- 02Water table depth achieved
- 03Emissions reduction estimated
- 04Units validated and verified
- 05Net income versus prior land use
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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Hectares restored
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 23 Median 57 Upper quartile 72
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Water table depth achieved
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 28 Median 61 Upper quartile 87
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Emissions reduction estimated
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 39 Median 60 Upper quartile 84
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Units validated and verified
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 35 Median 61 Upper quartile 78
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Net income versus prior land use
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 33 Median 56 Upper quartile 74
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 Peatland
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 Peatland 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?
Long verification lag before income. Modelled explicitly in cashflow. 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.
Peatland Restoration Economics: Emissions, Units and the Grazing You Give Up
The practical handbook for peatland: what the rules require, what the evidence has to show, and the mistakes that cost people money.
peatland — evidence checklist
Every document an audit or a claim asks for, in the order it is asked for, with the validity period of each.
peatland — 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 peatland, for advisers and software partners.
See Peatland 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