Farm Biodiversity
A world-class, leading tool for calculating and maintaining farm biodiversity.
Enabling you to assess the current state of on-farm biodiversity and explore the most optimal and cost-effective biodiversity farming practices and interventions to improve your farm biodiversity score.
Dynamically linked to other Sandy modules, the tool fully accounts for your preferences, agri-environment scheme incentives, and retailer requirements.
What is farm biodiversity?
Biodiversity refers to the mixture of all plant and animal life.
In a farming context, this can include all plants and wildlife such as birds, mammals, insects and micro-organisms in the soil. Biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem and makes up part of your farm’s natural capital.
Why biodiversity is important on a farm
With more than 70% of UK land used for agriculture, farmed environments are an important part of the whole ecosystem for plant and wildlife species.
Changing land uses, fertiliser application and greater demand for food production can all impact biodiversity and habitat loss, but maintaining and improving the variety of species present on your farm has benefits for productivity and profitability.
Benefits of maintaining farm biodiversity
Improve soil health
Improve productivity and yield potential
Control pests and improve pollination of crops
Evidence biodiversity net gain as a co-benefit to carbon tokens on your farm
Improve and maintain farm biodiversity with Sandy
Easy to use, new generation farm biodiversity calculator
Create biodiversity reports - provides an interface that is simple and intuitive for an overview of the current status of biodiversity across your whole farm.
Optimised for minimal farmer input; the user needs to simply ensure the integrated map accurately represents their farm and management practices.
Credible & scientific
Implements a farm-scale biodiversity framework based on the expertise of 17 leading biodiversity scientists.
Assesses biodiversity net gain on the farm using cutting-edge scientific approaches without the need for surveys.
Focuses not only on conservation of species of concern, but covers the tens of thousands of species that can be found on farmland, many of which underpin food production.
Applicable to all major farming systems and enterprises
Biodiversity plans for all farms - relevant to a broad selection of crop and livestock systems, and different management options.
Results are presented at field and farm levels.
Generates a farm biodiversity plan for all of your requirements
Predictive AI technology to plan, test and optimise management scenarios - see which biodiversity farming practices are most effective.
Distinctively and comprehensively takes into account farm budget, agri-environment schemes and retailer requirements.
Whenever your requirements change, these can be rapidly included to generate a revised plan for maintaining or improving biodiversity.
Provide tailored pathways for maintaining biodiversity and beyond
Provides simple packages of clearly described options to meet your requirements so you can be confident that actions on the ground will be both effective and of good value to you.
Includes scenarios for both crop and livestock systems.
Farm biodiversity calculator: You can easily assess how changes will impact your farm’s biodiversity as well as your overall productivity.