Agrivencia
How Agrivencia Compares
Built for UK farm businesses across all four nations.
Agrivencia brings the whole of a UK farm business into one record — cropping, livestock, land, water, inputs, machinery, schemes, compliance, carbon, markets and people — and makes that record do the paperwork that currently takes days.
Compared
Where Agrivencia differs from what already exists
The UK already has strong point tools. What it does not have is one record spanning them, or one view spanning four nations. That gap is the entire proposition.
| Agrivencia | Single-purpose farm software | Government portals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covers all four nations | Yes, each as a first-class tenancy | Usually one nation | One administration each |
| One record across domains | Yes — 84 modules, one data spine | Within its own domain only | Within its own scheme only |
| Scheme rules held as data | Yes, updated the day rules change | Rarely | Authoritative but not reusable |
| Assurance evidence auto-assembled | Yes, from operational records | Partially, per scheme | Not applicable |
| Whole-farm income optimisation | Across schemes and nature markets together | No | No |
| Offline field capture | Yes, designed first | Varies | Generally no |
| Marketplace and commerce | Multivendor with verification and escrow | Separate platforms | Not applicable |
| Farmer-owned data export | Published charter, open formats | Varies considerably | Limited |
This comparison describes categories of product rather than named competitors, and reflects our own assessment. Any specific product should be evaluated on its current published capability.
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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Output per hectare
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 23 Median 56 Upper quartile 86
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Variable cost per hectare
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 30 Median 51 Upper quartile 73
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Fixed cost per hectare
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 39 Median 50 Upper quartile 76
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Return on capital employed
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 34 Median 54 Upper quartile 79
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Labour hours per hectare
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 36 Median 51 Upper quartile 72
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
Why Agrivencia
What makes this different from another farm software package
Most farm software solves one problem well and leaves the rest to spreadsheets and portals. Agrivencia is built as one record with many views.
One record, many outputs
Enter a field operation once and it populates the agronomy record, the assurance audit pack, the scheme evidence file and the carbon footprint without being retyped.
Four nations, properly
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each run different schemes, portals, identifiers and language obligations. Each is a first-class tenancy, not an exception.
Rules as data
Scheme rules are stored as data, not code. When a rate changes or a window closes, the platform updates the same day rather than waiting for a release.
Offline first
Only around a fifth of farms report reliable signal across the whole holding. Field capture works without a connection and synchronises when one returns.
Evidence, graded
Every published figure is labelled by source tier, and conflicting estimates are shown as conflicts rather than quietly resolved in favour of the convenient one.
Your data, portable
The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time. Lock-in is a commercial strategy, not a technical necessity.
About
How Agrivencia Compares
Agrivencia brings the whole of a UK farm business into one record — cropping, livestock, land, water, inputs, machinery, schemes, compliance, carbon, markets and people — and makes that record do the paperwork that currently takes days.
The platform is designed around three convictions. First, that the work on a farm is already being done correctly and it is the recording of it that is duplicated. Second, that devolution is a design constraint rather than an inconvenience, so each nation is a first-class tenancy rather than an exception bolted onto an English system. Third, that a platform asking for farm data has to be legible before it can be trusted, which is why the evidence standards, the data charter and the commercial terms are all published in full.
None of that requires you to adopt everything at once. Most businesses start with the land record and the scheme engine, because those are the two that pay for themselves inside the first window, and add modules as the record earns its keep.
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
The questions we get asked most
Is Agrivencia a government service?
No. Agrivencia is a private platform designed to integrate with government systems across all four nations. It is built to government digital and accessibility standards, and it is proposed to government as an integration and delivery partner, but it is not a public body and does not speak for one.
How much does it cost?
There is a free tier that covers scheme discovery, deadline tracking and the land record, because those are the things that cost farmers money when they go wrong. Paid tiers add application management, optimisation, adviser seats and the commercial modules.
What if I only want one part of it?
That is the normal way to start. Most businesses begin with the scheme engine or the land record and add modules as they need them. Nothing requires you to adopt all eighty-four.
Is it available in Welsh?
Welsh language provision is a legal expectation for services in Wales and is treated as a requirement rather than a translation project. Gaelic content is provided for Scotland where relevant.
How accessible is it?
The platform is built to meet WCAG 2.2 at level AA, with a full keyboard path, captions and audio description on video, and an assisted-digital route for people who do not want to do everything online.
What happens to my data if I leave?
You take it with you. A complete export in open formats is available at any time, and account closure follows a published retention and deletion schedule.
Who is behind it?
Agrivencia is an independent platform business. Our evidence standards, data charter and commercial terms are published in full because a platform asking for farm data should be legible before it is trusted.
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.
See Agrivencia 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