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Field operations audit
Field operations leave a memory in the soil that tickets never capture. An audit is a reconstruction of traffic, timing, and missed windows.
When three people share a 200-hectare mixed farm, the story of a field’s year fragments. One person drilled. A contractor sprayed. Someone else subsoiled a wet headland because the cattle needed the other pasture. By harvest, nobody can quite say how many passes that block took.
We sit with the diaries first, then walk. Wheelings, tramline depth, and the shine on a smeared turn-row often confirm what the calendar only hints at. The output is a wall calendar of operations, not a lecture about traffic. You decide what to change; we make the year visible.
Who it is for
Holdings where several people share the tractor seat, or where a contractor’s diary and the farm diary do not quite match.
What you leave with
A season timeline per field: what ran, when, in what conditions, and which passes likely compacted, smeared, or missed.
Provider
Desktop Routebase field readers from Byford.
Time and place
One full day on farm and a written note within a week
Yard, records, and selected fields
Fee
From £980 for a single enterprise or a defined block of fields
Travel within Herefordshire is included. Further counties are quoted before we set a date.
Included
- Interview with whoever kept the spray and cultivation records
- Walk of two to four representative fields
- A simple operations calendar you can pin in the office
Not included
- Legal spray-record compliance audits for inspectors
- Costings of diesel or labour
- Machinery purchase advice
How the visit proceeds
- Gather diaries, contractor invoices, and weather notes for the year in question.
- Walk the fields while the marks of traffic are still visible.
- Return a one-year operations picture, with questions for the next season’s calendar.
Preparation
Bring spray sheets, cultivation notes, and contractor job tickets. Photographs of ruts from the year help.
Limits
Best done while wheelings are still readable — autumn after harvest, or late winter before spring work.
Tell us which season and which enterprise you want reconstructed.