Crops & Cultivation
Vineyards & UK Viticulture
The fastest-growing UK crop with the least dedicated software.
UK viticulture has grown into a serious sector with almost no UK-native vineyard software behind it. This module carries phenology, growing degree day accumulation, mildew and botrytis risk, canopy management, yield estimation from flowering counts, harvest logistics and the direct-to-consumer sales channel that most vineyards depend on for margin.
- 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 viticulture in the UK
Industry reporting records 4,841 hectares under vine across 1,104 vineyards and 238 wineries, with 2024 production just under 10.7 million bottles in a low-yield year against a record of roughly 21.6 million bottles the year before. Vineyard counts vary by source and reporting cycle, which is itself a symptom of a sector still building its data infrastructure. Spray records, phenology, disease pressure and yield estimation overwhelmingly live in spreadsheets.
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
Viticulture, 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.
Viticulture — a walkthrough
A working pass through viticulture: 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 Viticulture 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
- Block and row level vineyard record with variety, rootstock, clone and planting year
- Growing degree day accumulation from local weather with variety-specific thresholds
- Phenology tracking through budburst, flowering, veraison and harvest
Operate and monitor
- Downy and powdery mildew risk modelling with spray interval management
- Botrytis risk assessment through the ripening period
- Canopy management record — shoot thinning, leaf removal, trimming and tucking
Comply and evidence
- Yield estimation from bunch counts, bunch weight and historic conversion factors
- Harvest logistics with picking sequence, sugar, acid and pH sampling
- Winery intake reconciliation from vineyard block to tank
Analyse and improve
- Frost risk alerting with site-specific cold air drainage considerations
- Direct-to-consumer wine shop with age verification and duty handling
- Cellar door, tasting and tour booking linked to the agritourism module
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.
Growing degree day accumulation chart against multi-year average
Growing degree day accumulation chart against multi-year average
ChartMildew pressure gauge with recommended interval and last application date
Mildew pressure gauge with recommended interval and last application date
GaugeYield estimation calculator from bunch counts to predicted tonnage and bottles
Yield estimation calculator from bunch counts to predicted tonnage and bottles
CalculatorFrost risk alert map for the holding
Frost risk alert map for the holding
MapHarvest sampling dashboard tracking sugar, total acidity and pH by block
Harvest sampling dashboard tracking sugar, total acidity and pH by block
DashboardEnd to end
How Viticulture 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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Establish the block record and site assessment
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Track dormancy and prune
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Monitor budburst and frost risk
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Manage canopy through the growing season
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Run the disease programme with interval control
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Estimate yield at flowering and again at veraison
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Sample, harvest and deliver to winery
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Sell through cellar door and direct channels
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.
Vineyard manager, Sussex
25 ha sparkling wine
Needs disease pressure and spray intervals defensible under assurance.
Owner-operator, Kent
6 ha with cellar door
Needs vineyard records and the wine shop to be the same system.
Contract winemaker
Multi-grower intake
Needs block-level provenance carried into the winery record.
New entrant planter
Establishing 10 ha
Needs site suitability and establishment cost modelling before committing.
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.
Farming Transformation Fund
Fund larger capital projects that transform farm productivity, water management or value addition.
Defra / Rural Payments Agency EnglandEnvironmental Land Management Capital Grants
Fund capital works supporting environmental outcomes — boundaries, water, air quality, natural flood management and infrastructure.
Defra / Rural Payments Agency EnglandAdding Value Grant
Support investment in processing, packing and marketing that adds value to primary agricultural products.
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 per hectare
- 02Bottles produced per hectare
- 03Disease incidence at harvest
- 04Yield estimate accuracy
- 05Direct-to-consumer margin per bottle
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 per hectare
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 29 Median 50 Upper quartile 82
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Bottles produced per hectare
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 23 Median 54 Upper quartile 78
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Disease incidence at harvest
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 20 Median 53 Upper quartile 85
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Yield estimate accuracy
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 33 Median 54 Upper quartile 71
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Direct-to-consumer margin per bottle
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 36 Median 49 Upper quartile 82
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 viticulture 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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February 1 entry
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3 February: Animal Health and Welfare Pathway
Rolling application.
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April 4 entries
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3 April: Establish the block record and site assessment
A recurring step in viticulture.
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17 April: Monitor budburst and frost risk
A recurring step in viticulture.
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20 April: Adding Value Grant
Round-based.
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20 April: Manage canopy through the growing season
A recurring step in viticulture.
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June 2 entries
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5 June: Farming Transformation Fund
Round-based by theme.
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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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September 1 entry
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19 September: Track dormancy and prune
A recurring step in viticulture.
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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 2 entries
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12 November: Improving Farm Productivity Grant
Round-based.
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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 Viticulture
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 Viticulture 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?
Frost loss. Mitigated by site-specific alerting and mitigation planning. 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.
UK Viticulture Records: Phenology, Pressure and Yield Estimation
The practical handbook for viticulture: what the rules require, what the evidence has to show, and the mistakes that cost people money.
viticulture — evidence checklist
Every document an audit or a claim asks for, in the order it is asked for, with the validity period of each.
viticulture — 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 viticulture, for advisers and software partners.
See Viticulture 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