The Farming hub is where you record the day-to-day reality of running the farm - hedgerows, soils, livestock, crops and weather. It sits alongside Schemes (where compliance lives) and feeds the same underlying records.
Opening the hub
Click Farming in the sidebar. The hub shows six category cards. Each card includes a short description and quick stats pulled from your records (for example "12 hedgerows - 6 surveyed this year").
The six categories
Hedgerow Surveys - condition assessments and the survey schedule
Soil Tests - lab results, trends and management plans per parcel
Fertilizer Records - nutrient applications by parcel
Livestock - herds, animal lists, movements and health
Planting - current crops, varieties and rotations
Weather History - observations including frost-risk records (feature-flagged)
Add Record
The Add Record button at the top right is a shortcut into whichever screen makes sense for what you want to log. From there you can record a soil sample, a hedgerow survey, a movement and so on.
Why use Farming?
One source of truth - records you make here are reused by your scheme dashboards (e.g. soil tests appear automatically against SFI soil actions)
Trend insight - charts and history views help you see how soil health, hedgerow condition or rainfall are changing over the years
Audit-ready - structured records are far easier to defend in an inspection than loose paperwork
Tips
Set yourself a recurring time each month to update Farming records - it is much harder to reconstruct them later
Most screens support import from spreadsheets if you already keep records elsewhere
Use the Map alongside Farming to remind yourself which parcel a record belongs to