Soil Benchmark provides a data-driven platform that utilizes environmental datasets to generate tailored Soil Management Plans for farmers, enabling them to assess risks such as erosion and nitrate leaching. By streamlining the process of soil health management, the platform helps farmers improve soil quality and increase crop yields while complying with regulatory requirements.
Funding
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Problem
Farmers face challenges in efficiently assessing and managing soil health risks such as erosion, run-off, and nitrate leaching, often relying on time-consuming manual processes and disparate data sources. Compliance with environmental regulations like the UK's Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) adds complexity, requiring detailed soil management plans that are difficult to create and maintain.
Solution
Soil Benchmark offers a data-driven platform that streamlines the creation of Soil, Manure, and Nutrient Management Plans, enabling farmers to assess and mitigate environmental risks while adhering to regulatory standards. By integrating environmental datasets from sources like the Environment Agency and the British Geological Survey, the platform automates risk assessment and generates tailored management proposals for each field. Farmers can input their own knowledge and historical data to fine-tune these plans, ensuring accuracy and relevance. The platform supports compliance with SFI SAM1, NVZ, FRfW, SFI NUM1, and Red Tractor standards, providing a comprehensive solution for sustainable land management.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes farmers, farm advisors, and agronomists in the UK seeking to improve soil health, comply with environmental regulations, and optimize land management practices.
Features
- Automated risk map layers for run-off, erosion, wind erosion, and nitrate leaching, sourced from environmental agencies
- Identification of sensitive areas, including boreholes, water features, NVZs, and SSSIs within a 50m radius of each field
- Smart proposals for soil management actions, generated based on land use, slope, soil texture, and other environmental attributes
- Editable risk scores, borehole data, water features, and management proposals, allowing farmers to incorporate their expertise
- Integration of climate data from the Met Office, including temperature, rainfall, sunlight hours, wind speed, and humidity
- Digitization and mapping of uploaded paper records, enabling users to compare historical data with current field conditions
- Soil mapping data from Cranfield University and the James Hutton Institute, providing detailed soil series information
- Manure and Nutrient Management plan creation for NVZ, FRfW, SFI NUM1 and Red Tractor compliance