We are pleased to announce the release of the chemical checking audit service for planned and completed jobs in our Premium version of TELUS Crop Management, as well as the ability to conduct intra-business transactions for customers with multiple farm businesses who wish to efficiently trade products and activities between them on Advanced and Premium versions.
TELUS Crop Management now supports full comprehensive nutrient planning for grassland fields - not just arable crops. If any of your fields are recorded as grassland use, you can now build a crop requirement plan specifically tailored to how that grass is managed and used. Within the Nutrient Management crop requirements flow, an Expanded Options toggle is now available. When enabled, additional inputs become accessible that allow you to customise the calculation beyond the standard defaults.
Chemical Checking Audit
Ensuring the chemicals you apply are correct and comply with legal safety limits is essential, and the chemical checking audit process in TELUS Crop Management provides comprehensive verification of both your target workplans and completed applied records for regulatory compliance and safety. Currently, 15 separate checks are performed against UK data within the TELUS label database, with additional checks scheduled for release later in the year.
Jobs can be audited at draft, issued, and completed stages, providing complete assurance throughout your workflow. Users will receive a pass result when all checks have been completed and no compliance issues are identified.
A multi-approval occurs when a product can be applied at multiple growth stages, often with differing application rates. The chemical checking audit service requires a specific growth stage to be designated in order to complete the compliance verification successfully.
Additionally, if the chemical checking audit service identifies compliance issues, it will provide detailed information about each failure, including which fields were affected and the specific reasons for non-compliance.
Intra-Business Trading and reports
For customers managing multiple businesses, particularly those with contracting operations, the ability to invoice completed work and reconcile stock quantities is now available through the Intra-Business Trading function.
This feature, once turned on, automatically calculates the quantities of both products and activities to be invoiced based on a user-defined date range or since the last intra-business transaction was conducted, streamlining your inter-business billing and inventory management processes.
Alongside this we have introduced the Transaction Summary report which can be configured to display specific trades to meet your needs.
Nutrient Management Grassland
Matching nutrient inputs to grass swards is just as important as managing fertiliser on arable land. Getting it right improves grass productivity, reduces wasted inputs, and can extend the grazing season or reduce the need for bought-in feed. Grassland nutrient planning also supports compliance with NVZ Nitrogen fertiliser rules, which apply to grassland closed periods as well as arable land.
What you can now do
When you include a grassland field in a Nutrient Management Plan crop requirement, you will work through a series of new sections specific to grass:
Grass management: Set how each field is managed (e.g. silage only, grazing only, or a combination). The management type directly influences the nitrogen recommendation.
Grass management history: Record the recent history of each grassland field, such as whether it has been ploughed and reseeded in recent years and what its previous usage was. This affects the soil nitrogen supply calculation.
Grass growth class: Set the growth class for each field based on soil type, altitude, and rainfall. Grass growth class describes how well a site can respond to nitrogen, from low-response sites (higher altitude, drier soils) to high-response sites (lower altitude, wetter soils).
Soil nitrogen supply (SNS): Specify or confirm the soil nitrogen supply value for each grassland field. This adjusts the recommendation to account for nitrogen already available in the soil.
Defoliation periods: Define the pattern of cuts and grazing events planned for the season (for example, Silage–Grazing–Grazing). The number and type of defoliation periods affects how much nitrogen is recommended and when it should be applied.
Target dry matter (DM) yield: Enter the target dry matter yield for each defoliation period. This, combined with the defoliation sequence, determines the nitrogen recommendation produced by the AHDB RB209 engine.
Once all grassland information is entered, you calculate and save the crop requirement in the same way as for arable fields. Results show the nitrogen (and other nutrient) requirements for each grassland field, alongside the balance of what has already been applied through fertiliser jobs and organic manure applications recorded in the season.
A Crop Requirement Report can be generated for grassland plans, giving you a printable record of the recommendations — useful for inspections, advisor records, or NVZ compliance documentation.
Grassland fields are also now included in NMax calculations. Where your grassland fields are within a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone, the NMax tab will include them in the calculation of your permitted annual nitrogen limit.
Nutrient Management Expanded
The standard ("Express") version of crop requirements uses sensible defaults, for example, using the average target yield for a crop type rather than asking you to enter one. This is fast and suitable for most situations. However, if you want to produce a more tailored recommendation, particularly for higher-value crops or situations where your yields or growing conditions differ significantly from average - the Expanded Options give you control over those inputs.
What the Expanded Options include
When the toggle is turned on, additional accordions appear in the crop requirement flow:
Target yield: Enter the specific yield you are aiming for on each field rather than using the system default. For cereals, this adjusts the nitrogen requirement accordingly.
Target grain nitrogen: For barley crops, specify the target grain nitrogen percentage. This is relevant where you are growing malting barley (typically a lower target, around 1.65%) versus feed barley (higher, around 1.85%).
Altitude adjustment: Where relevant, the system uses your holding's postcode to look up altitude and factor this into the calculation automatically, as altitude affects the nitrogen recommendation under RB209.
The navigation experience within the accordion list has also been improved. The Back and Next buttons now stay anchored at the bottom of the screen, so they remain visible as you work through the accordions - removing the need to scroll down to find them when sections contain a lot of information.