A digital platform which streamlines burdensome farm admin while creating real-time data insights on business performance has won a Silver RHASS Innovation Award.

Developed by Angus farmers John and James Fairlie, Yokit was recognised in the Digital and Management Solutions category, sponsored by Agrii.

It is the highest accolade a first-time applicant can win and the award was presented to the cousins at the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh last week.

"To win Silver at our first attempt in the oldest awards in Scottish agriculture means a huge amount to us," said co-founder John Fairlie. "It's recognition from our own industry that Yokit is solving a real problem. We built this because of what we were seeing on our own farms, so to see it resonate and be recognised by the RHASS is something we're incredibly proud of."

Yokit replaces hand-written timesheets, holiday forms and invoice information with one secure system that the whole team can access from a phone or a desktop.

Operators log jobs as they leave each field, capturing fuel use, hours, area covered and machinery used. This enables managers and owners to see live costs and, where required, generate invoices in seconds through integration with Sage, Xero and QuickBooks.

James said: "Farming has adopted all kinds of precision technologies to grow the best crop and rear the best animal, but so many farm offices are still run on pens, paper and guesswork. That leads to mistakes and a false picture of how your business is performing.

"Margins are so thin in agriculture. Being as efficient as possible is a daily reality for farms like ours.

"Yokit pulls everything together in one secure place. You can see where time and money are going, and make decisions based on facts rather than your gut or your memory."

John runs Balmirmer Farms, a mixed potato, cereal, oilseed rape and livestock enterprise, while James is focused on potatoes and combinable crops alongside a 500-kilowatt biogas plant at Fairlie Farms.

Yokit was created over several years using live data from the founders' own operations, with every feature tested by real operators. Its drop-down fields are designed to be fast and error-free even with muddy hands, and all data is encrypted and backed up on secure cloud infrastructure.

As part of the award, Yokit exhibited in the Royal Highland Show's Innovation Area.

An RHASS Silver is the highest award available to a debut innovation. Gold Awards are reserved exclusively for businesses that have previously taken Silver and can then prove sustained commercial success and industry impact over time.