Every field. Every beast on it. Every job, sent.
Your fields on satellite, with who's in each one and which is ready next. Send the contractor the whole job from the gate. In from the RPA in a minute. Free on every plan.
The FarmHQ farm map puts every field on satellite, shows which stock are in each one and which field is ready next, and sends a contractor the whole job (the fields, the gate, the hazards, the rules and the price) by WhatsApp or email. In England you type your SBI and the RPA's outlines for your business come back in a minute. In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland you pick your fields file. It works with no signal, and it is in every FarmHQ plan, including the free Trial Farm plan.
Updated 27 October 2026
In from the RPA in a minute.
No drawing round boundaries all evening. Type your SBI and the RPA's outlines for your business come back, with their areas. Tick the ones that are yours, name them, done.
RPA parcels have numbers, not names. Nobody on a farm says "SX7902 1234", so you name each one while it's lit up on the map and there's no doubt which it is.
Your SBI
The RPA publishes every business's parcels. Type the number, tick your fields, name them. Scraps and yards start unticked.
Your fields file
Download your fields from Rural Payments Wales, Rural Payments and Services or DAERA and pick the file. Zipped shapefiles, KML and GeoJSON all work. Land App and Google Earth exports too.
Tap it, or draw it
Tap a field on the map and its outline comes up. Drag the corners if it's not quite right. Nothing there? Tap round the corners yourself. The area, the hedge length and the gate follow.
The newest clear picture, every few days.
Sentinel-2 passes over every few days and sees 10 metres. FarmHQ finds the last clear pass over your farm and puts it under your outlines. Flick to Greenness to see which fields are growing and which are grazed down.
Cloud over the farm on every pass lately? It says so, and tries again later. The picture is kept on the phone with its date, so it's there with no signal.
Who's where, and which field is next.
Your groups as you already call them: Finishers, Youngstock, the ewes. One tap moves them. The map shows how long every field has rested and which one is ready.
No grass measuring. A field rests for about three weeks in spring, four in summer, five in autumn. Winter barely grows. Each time stock go in you tap short, about right or long, and the targets learn your ground.
Move a group to land on another holding and it says so: that's a movement to report within three days, and a standstill starts. Last herd test not clear? It says a licence is needed before cattle leave.
Send the whole job. Not a phone call and a hope.
Pick the fields. Say what wants doing and what to put on. FarmHQ writes the message: the fields and the acres, the gate with directions, the hazards, the rules it could break, the price and who to ring. Send it on WhatsApp or by email.
The words carry everything, so it reads in the cab with no signal. The link carries the map.
No app, no account. He taps once when he sets off and once when he's done.
When his bill comes in, by photo or by email, FarmHQ finds the job by its ref or his name and checks the money against the rate times the acres. It suggests. You say "that's the job".
The Met Office, for your farm, not the county.
The forecast for the middle of your farm, kept on the phone. It only speaks when something matters: heavy rain, frost, a spray window, a dry spell for silage, a cold wet night for lambs, heat for stock. Nothing is shown when nothing matters.
12 mm in the last 2 days · 31 mm this week. The hour's weather goes on every spray and fertiliser record too, the way the assessor wants it.
What's been done, and what can't be.
Tap a field for its card: soil, use, what's growing, who's in it, and everything that's happened to it. Slurry, muck, bagged nitrogen, spray with the stock-out date, topped, reseeded, sown and harvested with the yield.
Arable too. A crop belongs to its harvest year, so wheat drilled in October is next year's crop. The plan for next harvest is written field by field, and the rotation speaks up: second wheat, brassicas back too soon, potatoes on a short gap. Over the years it shows which fields do best for which crop.
Send a slurry job in the closed period and the rule goes in the message, with the dates. You're liable for what a contractor does on your land, so it says so before he sets off.
No spreading within 10 m of a watercourse (6 m with a trailing shoe or injector) or 50 m of a spring, well or borehole. Not on waterlogged, flooded, frozen or snow-covered ground.
Who's housed where, and how long the slurry room lasts.
Tap a shed on the map and it's yours: housing, slurry store, silage clamp, muck heap. Stock go into a shed the same way they go into a field, so the housed groups are on the map all winter.
The slurry store knows what's housed. A cow makes about a cubic metre a month, stores and finishers a bit less, calves hardly any. It says how many months of room are left against the five an NVZ wants. Rain on an open store adds on top and isn't counted. It says that too.
Tap the sides. Get the list.
A field's outline is split into its sides, so a hedge that wanders is one side, not thirty. Tap the sides being done, or draw a new line, and pick the fence: stock netting with a barb, three-strand barb, post and rail, electric.
It counts the stakes, the strainers and struts at every end, corner and gateway and every 150 m along a long run, the rolls of netting and the coils of wire, with 5% on for joins. Then send the fencer the job, or the merchant the list.
| Stakes1.7 m × 75–100 mm · every 3 m | 215 |
| Strainers2.4 m × 150 mm | 6 |
| Struts2.1 m × 100 mm | 10 |
| Rolls of stock netting (100 m)C8/80/15 for cattle and sheep | 7 |
| Coils of barbed wire (200 m) | 4 |
Drawn on the map, to scale.
Mark the power line, the stream, the borehole, the wet corner, the trough. Lines and bands are drawn at their real width: 10 m either side of a watercourse, 50 m round a spring, well or borehole. That's the ground nothing gets spread on.
They go in every contractor's message under WATCH OUT, and on the farm map PDF for the assessor.
The farm map PDF
For Red Tractor and the NVZ: the map with fields, water and the no-spread bands, a fields table, the sheds and stores, and twelve months of fertiliser, muck and spray. Made on the phone, sent from the phone.
Save the map for no signal
One tap downloads the map round your farm, about 50 MB. Your fields, stock, records and jobs are on the phone anyway and sync when you're back in range. The yard has no bars. It doesn't matter.
Ask him about the land.
Joe knows every field and shed: what's in it, what's been done, the sides and how long they are, the crops and yields, the slurry room, the jobs out with contractors. He answers from the same sums the map shows, and names the field.
Ask him things like
- “How much fence for the bottom of Top Field?”
- “When did Long Meadow last get slurry?”
- “Which field does best for winter wheat?”
- “How many months of slurry room have I got?”
The bottom of Top Field is the south side, 178 m. In stock netting with one barb that's about 58 stakes, 2 strainers, 2 struts, 2 rolls of netting and 1 coil of barb.
Long Meadow last had slurry on 12 March, 30 m³/ha, from your own tanker. Nothing since.
Based on Top Field's outline and Long Meadow's record. Joe drafts. You confirm.
Your fields are in the RPA already. Bring them home.
The farm map is in every FarmHQ plan, the free one included. Nothing extra to pay. One founder farms; you'll be talking to him, not a sales team.
Free to start: 25 cattle, 50 sheep, the medicine book, Joe and the map. Plans from £29.99 a month when you outgrow it. See the plans.
What farmers ask about the map.
Does it work with no signal?
Yes. Save the map round your farm, about 50 MB, and it's on the phone. Your fields, stock, records and jobs live on the phone first and sync when you have signal. Sending a contractor a job needs signal for the map link. With none, the message goes in words and you can send the link when you're back in range.
Which countries does it cover?
England: type your SBI and the RPA's outlines for your business come back. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: download your fields file from Rural Payments Wales, Rural Payments and Services or DAERA and pick it. Tapping a field or drawing one works anywhere. The rules it quotes, closed periods, standstills and the like, follow your nation.
What does it cost?
Nothing extra. The farm map is in every plan, including the free Trial Farm plan. Paid plans start at £29.99 a month when a farm outgrows the free limits of 25 cattle and 50 sheep. The plans are on the sign.
Does my contractor need the app?
No. He gets a message on WhatsApp or by email with the fields, the gate, the hazards, the rules and the price, and a farmhq.ai link with the map. On that page he taps On my way or Job done. No app, no account, nothing to set up.
Where does the satellite picture come from?
Sentinel-2, the European Space Agency's free satellites. They see 10 metres and pass over every few days. FarmHQ finds the newest clear pass over your farm and shows it as a photo or as greenness. The outlines underneath are Mapbox satellite.
Who sees my land?
Nobody but you and the people you send a job to, and they see only that job's fields. Your records are yours. Joe reads your farm's data to help your farm. It's never sold, never shared, and never used to train anything for anyone else. Leave, and it leaves with you.