Next-Gen Planning & Budgeting for Sustainable Farming

有效的预算和规划是英国最具生产力和可持续发展的农民的公认特征。随着补贴支持的变化、农产品价格的高通胀以及气候变化带来的业绩不确定性，规划和预算的重要性从未像现在这样重要。然而，绝大多数农民没有定期对他们的农场进行规划和预算。这其中的核心是一个技术挑战：要进行有效的规划和预算，农民必须能够处理并相互关联数百个生产变量，以建立一个有意义的可能结果的图景。或者，他们只能在最高级别的聚合中进行规划，这在实践中变得毫无意义。今天的农民没有有效的智能规划和预算工具。基础数据技术和云计算的发展，加上不断增长的农场数据和对分析价值的理解，意味着现在有可能面临这一复杂的技术挑战。我们提出了一个为期12个月的项目，由农场数据分析领导者YAGRO领导，与两家业绩良好的农业公司Brixworth Farming和RH Topham&Sons合作。该项目旨在向英国农业社区提供有效的、商业化的网络服务功能；允许智能的多年规划和预算，从而帮助农民测试、优化和跟踪他们的农场战略。这不仅将通过优化绩效来帮助短期季节性生产率，还将支持农民通过变化实现转型，无论是通过种植调整来应对气候变化，还是通过再生农业实践实现净零目标。

Effective budgeting and planning is a recognised feature of the most productive and sustainable farmers in the United Kingdom. With changing subsidy support; high agricultural price inflation; and performance uncertainty from climate change, the importance of planning and budgeting has never been greater. Nevertheless, the vast majority of farmers do not regularly carry out planning and budgeting on their farms.At the heart of this lies a technological challenge: to carry out effective planning and budgeting, farmers must be able to handle and interrelate hundreds of production variables, to build a meaningful picture of likely outcomes. Or, they are left planning at the very highest level of aggregation, which becomes a meaningless exercise in practice. There are no effective intelligent planning and budgeting tools available for farmers today.Developments in foundational data technologies and cloud computing, alongside growing farm data and understanding of analytical value, mean it is now becoming possible to face this complex technological challenge.We propose a 12 month project, led by the farm data analytics leader YAGRO, in collaboration with two high performing farming companies, Brixworth Farming and RH Topham & Sons. The project aims to deliver a working, commercialised web-service feature to the UK arable farming community; allowing intelligent multi-year planning and budgeting, and thereby helping farmers test, optimise, and track their farm strategies. Not only would this help short-term seasonal productivity by optimising performance; it would also support farmers to transition through change, whether that be reacting to climate change through cropping adjustments, or meeting Net Zero ambitions through regenerative farming practices.