Across farms, so far, the biggest wins are coming from farm assurance paperwork, analysis of farm accounts and business plans, agronomy spray programme drafting, well-structured letters to DEFRA or HMRC, general farm sourcing and procurement and spreadsheet work. Farmers report that spreadsheets are faster to set up and easier to maintain when the objective, formulae and layout are specified at the start; assurance documentation is quicker to assemble and check; accounts reviews surface patterns and options that can change decisions; spray programmes are clearer and easier to audit; formal letters are sharper and more persuasive; and sourcing and procurement searches deliver immediately usable sources/prices rather than pages of links that take time to manually check out.
Farm Office Work & Assurance Compliance
AI is highly rated for helping to draft Red Tractor/Leaf and other assurance materials, summarising lengthy documents and slide decks into short farmer-friendly language, triaging incoming emails and automatically producing well-aimed draft replies, and structuring planning applications with relevant policy references. It can turn 'messy' figures into tidy cashflow projections with scenarios and compare the hard numbers on finance repayment strategies, extract insights from abbatoir killsheets, and speed up machinery part number look-ups. Notably for some, it provides writing support that’s especially helpful for the dyslexic user. And existing spreadsheet farmer-afficionados are reporting GenAI to be proving to be a 'game-changing' boon.
Husbandry of Crop Agronomy & Farm Livestock
Out on the farm AI can prepare and check both spray and fertiliser calibration sheets, deliver 'excellent' spray programme recommendations, for training it can, for example, generate quick PA1 revision prompts, and it can keep a running agronomy advisory thread by asking for regular crop and weed photos. Reports include correct wheat yield estimates and dairy and beef cattle ration suggestions. Use for identifying weeds and crop fungal diseases with crop protection suggestions. Analysing ewe performance over time in sheep breeding programme. It works well as a grain-drying “consultant” to hit grain quality targets, to help get to the bottom of a sudden drop in milk yields, to attempt to adjust layer rations for egg size, and to draft risk assessments such as spraying crop protection products near water.
Field Operations & Machinery Support
Loading lengthy machinery pdf manuals enables the AI to act like an instant expert-in-the-cab for settings adjustments, for example in a combine. It has been used to explore drilling dates and costs from on-farm trial data, identify old machinery models from photographs for sourcing spares, and even sorting out that most annoying of office IT glitches - printer problems.
