RHIZA – Making digital farming work for you

From farm compliance and field scouting to variable rate planning and FMS integration, RHIZA has the tools to help you better manage your business now and in the future.

RHIZA, the UK’s leading digital agronomy and precision agriculture service, has announced exciting new enhancements to its market leading platform, Contour, addressing two major farmer challenges: SFI and the upcoming changes in the Farm Management Software (FMS) arena.

While other parties have shown interest in the FMS market, TELUS Agriculture, the UK and global leader for Farm Management Software, is rolling out its “tool of the future”, TELUS Crop Management (TCM) which will be fully integrated with Contour.

With new SFI-compliant Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Soil Management Planning (SMP) features, planned integration with TCM, and major usability improvements, RHIZA is fast becoming the complete digital farming solution. From soil mapping and precision applications to next-generation satellite imagery and disease forecasting, RHIZA transforms data into actionable insights.

With over 15 years of experience and a dedicated team of 40, RHIZA has evolved from offering soil analysis to delivering a comprehensive suite of digital land management tools. Backed by Agrii’s industry leading research covering 40,000 trial plots and a national network of Digital Technology Farms, its solutions are tested, trusted, and proven.

Soil mapping remains a cornerstone for many RHIZA customers entering precision farming. Each year, RHIZA’s 16 field operators map and sample over 120,000 hectares, capturing soil texture, nutrient levels, organic matter, and pH. All data is accessible via Contour, which offers tools for variable-rate application of seed, fertiliser, and lime.

In recent years, RHIZA and its sister company, Origin Digital, have transformed Contour into far more than a mapping tool. In close collaboration with farmers and agronomists, the development team has delivered practical tools driven by user needs and continuously refined through feedback.

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More than a compliance tool

The Contour platform features best-in-class planning tools, including nutrient management, livestock compliance, variable rate applications and manure management. The smartphone app, Contour Mobile, has undergone a complete overhaul to give users a quick, intuitive scouting tool. This enables users to not only scout crops utilising layers such as satellite imagery and soil maps but also tag observations or attach PDF documents, pictures and other relevant material which can be used to demonstrate compliance with environmental schemes.

These observations and attached files can be shared with others when needed. Users can also download stored data direct to the smartphone app for use offline, changes will then be uploaded to Contour when next connected to wi-fi or 4G.

Other recent additions include IPM and SMP tools. As with other elements of the platform, the process is designed to be intuitive, walking users through each step. Where information has already been entered, such as in other tools within Contour, the platform will use this to prepopulate the relevant fields reducing the time involved in creating new plans.

The cropping module in Contour has been fully re-designed and re-built to meet modern needs. It now has the capacity to be as flexible as modern farming businesses require. From sequencing multiple crops in the same season, as is often the case with silage leys or when forage maize is under sown with grass, to boundary changes to reflect game cover strips and environmental areas or split field cropping.

A soon-to-be-launched land management module will allow planning of all land usage within a business. This means that rather than assessing the value of environmental measures in isolation, these can be compared with crop performance on any given parcel of land. As processors and end-users introduce sustainability schemes of their own, RHIZA has the tools to help land managers identify how and where to integrate these measures without compromising output.

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TELUS Agriculture integration

From early 2026, the Contour platform will offer full integration with TCM, previously known as Farmplan Gatekeeper and Muddy Boots Greenlight Grower Management, to make sharing field information and plans a seamless experience.

By integrating the new TCM platform with Contour, growers can enjoy the benefits of seamless data transfer, meaning they can use whichever platform they prefer. TELUS Agriculture and RHIZA are committed to making operation as efficient as possible to remove the need for data to be entered multiple times across both platforms. Plans can be made in Contour and then easily sent into TCM to be managed, which when completed will be passed back to Contour. By working with TELUS Agriculture, RHIZA can offer users the best of both worlds: confidence in compliance, data insights and oversight of farm operations alongside industry-leading digital and planning tools.

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