[[company/farmwalk|Farmwalk]] lets you record the day-to-day reality of running the farm - hedgerows, soils, livestock, crops and weather. These farming records sit alongside Schemes (where compliance lives) and feed the same underlying data.
Accessing farming features
Farming features are accessed from within a specific farm. Open your farm, then use the tab bar at the top of the page to navigate to Land Data, Hedgerow Surveys, or [[company/evidence|Evidence]]. Individual sections (Soil Tests, Livestock, Planting, Weather History) are linked from the relevant scheme dashboards and from the farm tasks view.
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