BioYield Ltd

What we do

BioYield turns satellite imagery, field-level soil data and weather forecasts into in-season yield and nitrogen recommendations for arable farms and the agronomists advising them. The models are calibrated against combine yield maps rather than against plot trials, which is what makes the outputs credible at field scale; a recommendation arrives as a variable rate application file the farm's existing machinery can read, not as a report someone has to interpret.

Market and customers

Our customers are agronomy service providers, farm co-operatives and larger estates, who buy per hectare under annual agreements. The commercial driver has shifted over the last three years: precision nitrogen was sold on input cost savings, and is now increasingly bought to satisfy the carbon and nutrient reporting that grain buyers and processors require from their supply chains. That has moved the buying decision up the chain and lengthened contract lengths in our favour. We currently cover 190,000 hectares across the UK, with a growing share in eastern England.

Traction

Annual recurring revenue is approaching £900k with 91% seasonal renewal. Independent trials run with two agronomy partners across 60 fields showed nitrogen use reduced by an average of 14% with no statistically significant yield penalty. The platform now processes imagery for the whole customer base within eighteen hours of satellite pass, which is what makes the recommendation actionable inside a spraying window.

Team and investors

The company spun out of the University of Aberdeen's environmental modelling group and employs 14 people, including three agronomists who sit deliberately within the product team rather than in support. Investors to date include an agri-food focused angel syndicate and Scottish Enterprise.

Current raise

We are raising £1.5M of seed funding to extend the model set to oilseed rape and grassland, build the integrations grain buyers need for scope 3 reporting, and fund entry into two continental European markets where the regulatory driver is stronger still.