Custom parcel registration software for arable farming
Appfront builds software that lets arable farms record, per field, what is on it and what has happened to it: the crop each season, the operations, the fertilisation, the crop protection and the yield. With field boundaries as the foundation, the crop plan as the schedule, and the records in a form you can present for the declaration, the certification and the buyer.
What is field registration software for arable farming?
Field registration software turns every parcel into a record: its boundaries and area, the crop each season, the rotation over the years, and everything that has happened on it. Ploughing, sowing, fertilising, spraying, irrigating and harvesting, each with date, quantity and who carried it out. At the end of the season the yield is recorded against each field, and the overview that the return, certification or buyer requires is an export rather than a search.
Without such a system the crop plan lives in a spreadsheet, the spray log in the supplier's app, the fertiliser records in a notebook, and the yields in your head. At the annual return everything has to be hunted down together, and at a certification audit precisely the record the auditor asks for is missing. And working out what rotation a field has had over recent years takes an evening.
We build custom software because every arable farm records things differently. The crops vary, buyers ask for different reports, and how you work with contractors and neighbours determines who enters what. The software should follow your fields, your crops and your agreements, with an integration to the field data you have already registered with the government.
Field with boundaries
Every field on the map with its area, soil type and history, loaded from your existing field register rather than redrawn.
Crop plan and rotation
The crop for each field each season, with the rotation over the years visible and a warning when a crop returns too often.
Records and overview
Cultivation, fertilising, crop protection and yield per field, and the reports that the return, certification and buyer require.
How we build your arable field registration software
We start with the fields and the crop plan as they are now, and with the reports you have to supply each year. The rest follows from that.
Which fields, where the boundaries come from, which records you keep and where they currently sit. We also look at exactly what the return, your certification and your buyers require.
Fields loaded with boundaries and area, the crop plan by season, and the rotation over the years. With contractors and staff as users, each with their own permissions.
Cultivation, fertilising, crop protection and yield per field, enterable in the field and from the tractor, even without signal.
The exports for the return, certification and buyer, in the format they require. After that we take over management of the software.
What arable field registration software actually does
The components below come up on almost every arable farm. Which ones you need depends on your crops, your buyers and your certification.
Field map
Fields with boundaries and area, loaded from your existing register, with each field's record for this and previous seasons.
Crop plan
The crop per field per season, with rotation over the years and a warning when the rotation is too tight.
Operations
Ploughing, sowing, irrigation, harvesting and more, per field with date, machine and who carried it out.
Fertilising and crop protection
Per field the fertiliser or product, the quantity, the date and the operator, in the form the recording obligation requires.
Yield per batch
Harvested quantity per field and per batch, with quality recorded, traceable to the buyer.
Exports for return and audit
Seasonal reports in the format the return, the certifying body and the buyer require.
Who we build arable field registration software for
The software is intended for businesses where crop recording is scattered across too many places and where the return or the audit becomes a project every year.
Arable farms with many fields
Tens to hundreds of fields, often spread out. The field as a record makes rotation and history visible in one click.
Certified growers
Your buyer or certification body requires a watertight crop record for each field. The software turns the audit into an export rather than a search.
Collaborating businesses
Fields are shared, swapped or worked by a contractor. Each party records what they do, on the field that is yours.
Growers of food crops
Potatoes, onions, sugar beet, cereals: each crop has its own recording requirements and its own buyers. The software knows them per crop.
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This page is about the field as a record. For the spray records the law requires, see our spray record app page, and for the audit file needed for certification, our page on GlobalG.A.P. crop records. You can read how we work at building software.
If you want to use harvest forecasts from all your fields together for sales and planning, take a look at our harvest forecasting software for field vegetables.
For retrieving farm data with the farmer's consent, there is our page on a JoinData integration.
If you work to VVAK standards and want to be ready for an audit at any time, there is our VVAK field record software.
If you receive crop data from growers who register in Dacom, see our page on a Dacom integration.
For the arable trader who needs to match deliveries from growers against their contracts, there is our contract-tracking app for the arable trade.
Why choose Appfront for your arable field record software?
A field record is only useful if it is kept up to date throughout the season. That is what we build around.
Recording where the work happens
In the field, from the tractor, without signal, with the field you select on the map. Recording after the fact means records go missing.
Your fields, not redrawn
The boundaries come from the registration you already have. We build the integration, and you don't have to draw anything.
The export they ask for
Declarations, certificates and buyers each require their own overview. We build them in the format they accept, so the season ends with an export rather than an evening spent searching.
Security and privacy in arable field record software
Field data and yields are commercially sensitive, and a contractor or a neighbour helping out should only see what is meant for them. Permissions are set per field and per role, and every entry is logged with user, date and location.
A record that has been closed and used for a declaration or audit is no longer changed; a correction is a new record that refers to the old one. This way, what you submitted remains readable exactly as it was.
Frequently asked questions about arable field record software
Questions arable farmers ask before getting started.
It turns each field into a record: boundaries and area, crop per season, rotation across years, and all operations, fertilising, crop protection and yield with date and operator. The overviews for declarations, certification and buyers are produced from it as exports.
No. The boundaries and areas come from the field registration you already have with the government. We build the integration or import; you check that it's correct and don't have to draw anything.
Yes, with his own login and permissions limited to the fields he works on. What he enters appears straight away in your record, and you can see who made the entry. That saves you collecting his receipts.
The software records, per field, which product, what quantity, which date and who applied it, and stores that with a timestamp. We confirm the exact fields that the law and your certificate require at the start and build them in. For the spray registration itself, we have a separate page.
Yes. Records are stored on the device and sent as soon as there is a connection, with the correct time and location. For arable farming that isn't a luxury but a requirement.
Yes. Every harvested batch is linked to the field it came from, with date and quality. When a buyer asks where a batch came from and what was used on it, the answer comes straight from the record.
With accounting where it makes sense, for example for costs per field. With buyers via exports in the format they ask for; we'll build a direct integration if the buyer offers an interface for it.
Your fields as a record?
Tell us how many fields you have, which crops you grow and which reports you need to submit each year. We will show you what the record looks like per field and how much it saves you at the next submission.