Markets & Selling
Managing Payment Risk When Selling to a New Buyer
A practical guide for UK farm businesses, written to be used rather than admired.
Part of the Markets & Selling series. Contracts, specification, marketing and direct sales — getting paid properly for what you produce. This guide is written to be used on a working farm rather than read once — the method is shown, the sources are cited and the figures are labelled by how reliable they are.
The detail
What this actually means on a working farm
This guide covers what the rule or the practice actually requires, what evidence is needed to demonstrate it, where the common failures occur and what the whole thing is worth in money or in risk avoided.
Where the position differs between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the difference is set out explicitly rather than described in general terms. A business farming across a border needs both answers, not an average of them.
Every figure is graded. Legislation, official statistics and audit reporting are treated as authoritative; levy body and peer-reviewed material as reliable; commercial trackers and trade press as indicative and labelled accordingly. Where credible sources disagree, both estimates are given and the disagreement is stated.
Getting started
What you need to hand
Setting up takes about twenty minutes for a single holding. Nothing here needs to be perfect on day one; the platform will help you correct it.
Detail
The full position
Scope3
- Applies across all four UK nations
- Covers every enterprise type in the module set
- Available on the free tier unless otherwise stated
Your rights3
- Complete data export in open formats at any time
- Explicit, revocable consent for every instance of sharing
- Published retention and deletion schedule on account closure
Our obligations3
- WCAG 2.2 level AA accessibility
- Welsh language provision for services in Wales
- Published performance data once live
Try it now
Four-Nation Scheme Eligibility Check
Answer six questions and see every UK support scheme your business is likely to be eligible for, ranked by indicative value.
How this is calculated
Eligibility is assessed against the catalogued rules for each scheme in your nation, filtered by area thresholds, enterprise type, tenure and any existing agreement that would exclude you. Indicative value applies published payment rates to your stated areas. It is a planning estimate, not an offer.
This tool gives an indication only. Eligibility is determined by the delivering body against the current published scheme rules, which change frequently.
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.
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.
The four-nation scheme register
Every catalogued scheme across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with body, purpose, audience and window.
Compliance calendar
Dated obligations for the year, importable into your own calendar.
Evidence standards
How the platform grades a source, and what it will not publish.
Platform data model
The registry, the identifier graph and the API surface.
Free download
The Agrivencia Field Guide to UK Farm Support
A practical handbook, written for UK farm businesses, with the sources cited and the working shown. No sales call attached — the guide is the point.