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We’re running three half-day workshops with Niab to make sure our nutrient-planning software actually works the way you need it to — clear, quick and compliant ✅
No more swearing at PLANET, or building your own Excel workarounds because Telus won’t handle your grassland NMPs.
Benjamin, myself and the rest of the Soil Benchmark team have been busy over the last few months building something that is quick, accurate, and easy to use - but we need your help to get it spot on.
When we launched our platform in November 2023, it was just for SFI Soil Management Plans for farms in England. But with all the soils, rainfall and run-off data already in the platform, users quickly asked if we could go further: first manure spreading maps, then whole manure management plans, and finally nutrient management plans. The platform also now works in Wales and Scotland as well.
When we asked advisors what they wanted in a nutrient management software that they didn't feel they were getting in existing platform, four things came up again and again:
🐄 it should handle grassland properly as well as arable
💩 it should link fertiliser and manure plans automatically - including all the required maps
⚡ it should be quick, intuitive and easy to work with, not another slow, overcomplicated, spreadsheet based system
😴 it should avoid repetitive data-entry at all costs!
That’s what we’ve built with Nutrient Navigator, and we’ve been improving it through a series of workshops around the country. These next three are a chance to take it further — plus to help shape Crop Rex, our upcoming module for spray planning and crop protection.
🧭 Where & when:
📍 Harper Adams, Shropshire (TF10 8NB)
📅 Wednesday 29th October, 9am–1pm
If you're in the West Midlands or Powys, please come along!
📍 University of Leeds – Spen Farm, North Yorkshire (LS24 9GF)
📅 Thursday 30th October, 9am–1pm
Right next to the A1, between Leeds and York — ideal for anyone across Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire
📍 Morley Agricultural Foundation, Norfolk (NR18 9DF)
📅 Thursday 27th November, 9am–1pm
Should be convenient for advisors, farmers and agronomists across Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and northern Essex
🎟️ All the workshops are free to attend (🙏 to Innovate UK) and include a good lunch afterwards 😋
We’ve already run sessions in Somerset, Cumbria, Devon and Hampshire, and we'll be running more across GB in January & February — where should we go next?👇
