SFI and CSS - meeting your mandatory evidence keeping requirements
The Farm Economics App enables farms to keep track of what mandatory Countryside Stewardship (CSS) tasks need to have records and what Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) actions need evidence.
So many farms and agents we talk with are starting to drown in photos taken as part of the required evidence gathering for both SFI actions and CSS options. Whilst the 'evidence keeping' requirements in general are less stringent than many CSS options, there remains evidence to keep in order to reasonably ensure the aims of the actions are being met.
There are a number of partial solutions available to farms to organise photos ranging from using the 'File Explorer' on your desktop with organised folder names etc., through to manually uploading photos onto various interactive maps. The issue is often that photos are taken of various fields in bulk on a smartphone and then it is an onerous task to download them, let alone remembering which photo relates to which field and which particular SFI action or CSS option.
The Farm Economics App is focussed on taking this pain away in a couple of simple ways:
All the relevant information - whether invoices, statements, plans or photos are all automatically stored for the correct CSS option/SFI action and the correct field
You have a live dashboard during the year to let you know how much of the mandatory evidence you have collected and how much more you have to collect
The smartphone Farm Economics App enables you to take photos that are automatically allocated to the correct option/action and field
If photos have GPS information this will automatically be uploaded to the relevant interactive maps (eg. Google Maps, The Land App, Gatekeeper).
A couple of short videos below show you how Farm Economics App is helping farms keep track of mandatory photos and evidence for CSS and SFI.
Automatic photo upload onto interactive map
Provided you have your GPS settings on, we can now automatically extract the location information from the photo and place it on an interactive map as well as in the complete evidence report. See a short summary video below.
Expansion of CSS task recording and introduction of SFI evidence keeping
CSS mandatory record keeping is generally a bit more onerous than SFI - there are more individual record requirements for CSS. We have introduced several features to facilitate CSS record keeping:
Update multiple tasks at the same time - for example a hedgerow report that covers numerous fields
Ability to look at required tasks by Option as well as by type of Action (eg. Photos)
We have also now introduced SFI Evidence keeping for a number of farms who have such agreements in place. Remember - there is no additional charge for including this facility.
You can get a feel for these updates to CSS and SFI in the short video below..
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