Farmers, consultants and buyers could save a huge amount of time and effort with a new app that streamlines record-keeping for farm assurance and environmental schemes.

Currently, records for such schemes are disparate and duplicative, but the new Regeno app, Farmwalk, brings everything together on one platform. Farmers can simply take photos or record voice notes in the field, and the app automatically allocates them to the appropriate scheme or schemes, ready for consultants to approve. 

“Farmers, consultants and supply chain partners can spend days chasing, formatting and filing data, which can be scattered across emails, paperwork, photos and WhatsApp,” says Regeno Founder Sven Poppelmann. “Using the app, everything is one secure system, with evidence automatically mapped across different actions and schemes. Early pilots show it cuts admin time by 30-40%.”

Farmwalk sends reminders for compliance tasks, like walking a farm hedge or soil sampling, and then gathers video, photos and GPS data to fill records automatically. The app can also scan cattle tags, creating a map of where livestock are on the farm.  “You don’t need to tell it what to do – using artificial intelligence it recognises where you are and what you’re recording, be it a cover crop or a buffer strip,” he adds. “Then it builds an audit-ready pack at the click of a button, to show what else is required to reach 100% compliance.

“We’ve seen farms with nine or 10 live agreements across the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Countryside Stewardship (CS) use the app to eliminate confusion and guesswork around which actions need documenting, and in which way,” notes Mr Poppelmann. “It brings real clarity to what used to be a messy, time-consuming process.”

Users can access the SFI, CS, and Red Tractor assurance in Farmwalk – and Regeno can add other schemes with 24 hours’ notice. It can even be tailored to smaller co-operative regenerative farming schemes, for example, or for supply chain partners with their own verification needs.

“Using the single business identifier, it connects with the Rural Payments Agency and adds all of the detail and maps required quickly and easily,” says Mr Poppelmann. “The compliance calendar sends reminders, and everything can be reviewed and amended to individual circumstances.”

The app – which is already being piloted by major land agents across more than 300,000ha – allows consultants to see the compliance status of their entire portfolios at a glance, helping them stay on top of their work and grow their business without additional admin.

And for farmers, it provides a stress-free way to record compliance without wading through RPA manuals. “Recording things in the moment is far easier than reconstructing them a year later,” says Mr Poppelmann. “With more inspections moving online, Farmwalk reduces duplication and makes collaboration seamless.”

Farmwalk is available via a subscription package, with a 30-day free trial or option to try some features for free with no sign up required. Having won an Innovate UK grant for its development, it can also be further tailored according to user needs.

• For more information visit https://regeno.farm.