Evidence & Benchmarking Programme

Hawk Greener Growing

Built to gather real-world evidence of what precision drone services deliver. Built into every job, owned by every farmer.

Evidence from real farms, not test plots

Hawk Greener Growing is HarvestHawk's ongoing, farmer-led evidence and benchmarking programme embedded directly into our commercial operations.

The programme will build real-world evidence of how precision drone services compare with conventional ground-based methods under normal UK farming conditions.

It has not yet completed a season, so there are no HarvestHawk results to show yet. The first benchmarks will follow our first full season of commercial work, and we will publish them here when they exist, not before.

This is not a trial scheme. All services are delivered as standard paid commercial work. The evidence will reflect genuine farm conditions, not artificial experiments.

10 to 18%

Less input in published studies of variable-rate application. The programme will test that figure on real farms

100%

Farmer-owned data

Experimental risk

Year 1

First benchmarks follow our first full season

How it works

Simple, voluntary, and built around your normal workflow

Onboarding

Participation is offered during client onboarding. It's entirely voluntary. There's no obligation and no altered agronomic responsibility.

Standard delivery

Your jobs are carried out as normal paid commercial work. Nothing changes about how we deliver your service.

Data collection

With your consent, anonymised operational data is collected for aggregated analysis, comparing drone-enabled and tractor-based approaches where comparable data exists.

Benchmarking

Results will feed into benchmarks drawn from drone work across British farmland, so farmers can make decisions backed by real evidence rather than guesswork.

What we will measure

Practical outcomes that matter to working farms, recorded from the first season onward

Compaction avoidance

The difference between drone application and ground rigs on soil health and structure.

Improved timing

How drone access in wet or constrained conditions affects spray window hit rates and crop outcomes.

Targeted input use

Fertiliser and other input savings from GPS-precision application versus conventional broadacre methods.

Operational resilience

The ability to operate in wet ground conditions when tractors and sprayers can't access fields.

Benchmarks, built season by season

Data from real fields in real seasons, not generic national averages, starting with our first.

Trust & transparency

Supporting informed agronomic decision-making with data farmers can see, understand, and act on.

Your Data, Your Control

All data always remains farmer owned

We believe farm data belongs to the farmer who created it. Hawk Greener Growing is built on that principle from the ground up.

Any external use of programme data is anonymised, aggregated, and focused solely on demonstrating practical outcomes, never individual farm performance.

✓ You own your data, always

✓ Participation is voluntary and consent-based

✓ External use is anonymised and aggregated only

✓ No altered agronomic responsibility or experimental risk

✓ GDPR compliant throughout

Anonymised · Aggregated
Farmer-Owned · GDPR Compliant

Your Data. Your Control.

Commercial service, not a trial scheme

Hawk Greener Growing imposes no experimental risk. Every job is delivered as standard commercial work at your normal service rate. The programme simply captures what's already happening, so the evidence will reflect real farming, not lab conditions.

Building real-world benchmarks for drone agriculture

The programme will create benchmarks drawn from drone work across British farmland. Data that reflects the soils, weather and practices farms actually deal with.

Over time, that evidence base will support the wider case for drone-enabled agriculture as a practical tool for British farming.

Locally relevant

Data from farms in your region as the programme grows, not imported from overseas trials or generic UK-wide averages.

Growing evidence base

Every participating job will add to the dataset, building the benchmarks for all programme members.

Supporting the wider case

Building trusted, transparent evidence of what drone agriculture delivers. For farmers, agronomists, and policymakers.

Interested in joining the programme?

Every HarvestHawk client can opt in. Get a quote for your first job and we'll walk you through how it works.