For
Farmers
Soil Association Exchange helps you get the funding and advice you need to make your business more resilient - backed by rigorous environmental data.
Your path to a more profitable, resilient farm
Lower costs
Identify ways to reduce input costs and improve efficiency.
Unlock new income
Access funding and payments for environmental improvements.
Build resilience
Long term resilience to market, climate, and policy changes.
The Platform
Your Farm’s Nature Data. All in One Place.
Everything starts with your baseline. Exchange brings together data on your soil, biodiversity, carbon, animal welfare, social and water — and helps you track and compare it over time.
What you get:
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A personalised dashboard showing your farm’s performance across key indicators
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Dynamic benchmarking to compare with similar farms
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Download your data for govt subsidy evidencing and supply chain audits
Measurement
We can do as much of the hard work as you like. From surveying every field, to a lighter touch project - we create a plan to suit you.
Advice
We'll translate your data into what this means for your farm plan: Create long term resilience, Maximise efficiencies, Reduce inputs and identify cost savings.
Measurement & Advice
Independent, science-backed insights from people who understand farming.
Exchange Advisors are BASIS environment qualified and trained in sustainable farming practices.
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Unlock funding
Turn your good work into new income.
Exchange helps you access funding for nature-positive change — whether through our insetting fund (Exchange Market), corporate partners, or public schemes.
We connect you with:
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Private buyers looking to invest in UK nature
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Tailored support for applying to government schemes
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Long-term partnerships that reward your environmental outcomes
Average net income from Exchange Market: £4,500 per farm.
How to get involved
There are two different ways to get involved with Exchange:
Free for all UK farmers
What farmers are saying about us
Richard Pain
Witley Court Farm
Our advisor Karen was very knowledgeable and made the whole process easy.
James Griffin
Fonthill Estate
Rather than just all the data being remotely gathered, the team actually walk the fields. It felt like the best of both worlds.
Robert Fleming
Castle Sinniness Farm
Getting a better understanding of where we stood, matched with some sound advice has given confidence to take the next step.