For farmers & land managers · EU
Your buyers will ask for nature data. Answer it once, proportionately.
Across the EU, the companies that buy from farms must now report on the nature of their supply chains — so the questions are landing on farms. EcoIntel gives you an independent, satellite-measured record of your land's condition — the evidence those requests need, with almost none of your time.
Reviewed June 2026
Why your buyers are asking (and why it won't stop)
CSRD reaches farms indirectly but firmly. Large buyers in scope must report their value-chain impacts and dependencies on nature under ESRS E4 — so they push data requests down to suppliers, including farms. A farm that isn't itself in scope increasingly still has to answer, or it risks losing preferred-supplier status, premiums, or favourable finance and insurance terms.
You're protected — and there's a standard for it
The part that's in your favour: the 2025 Omnibus added a value-chain cap. A CSRD-reporting buyer cannot require sustainability information from a supplier with fewer than 1,000 employees beyond what the VSME standard specifies. The EU built VSME — the Voluntary SME standard — precisely so smaller players can disclose proportionately instead of drowning in every buyer's bespoke questionnaire.
So you don't answer twenty different spreadsheets — you answer once, proportionately, against a recognised standard.
Status: the cap is in the new directive; the VSME-based standard that sets its ceiling is expected via a delegated act around summer 2026.
What EcoIntel gives you
EcoIntel's second product line is ESG-readiness for land managers — a credible, independent, continuous record of your land's ecological condition (water, vegetation, soil, a full carbon assessment — flux and stocks — and biodiversity-relevant indicators), with a dated baseline and a trend, structured to line up with ESRS E4 and VSME-style requests.
- Low cost, little of your time — one map upload, and the satellite does the rest. No field visits, no sensors, no consultant day-rate.
- Independent — satellite-measured, not self-reported — evidence an auditor will accept.
- Weekly-resolution — weather-corrected, with history back to 2018.
Instead of guessing at a buyer's questionnaire, you share measured evidence — turning a compliance burden into market access: proof you're improving, a basis for premiums, and an asset for lenders and insurers.
The framework-mapped data points are in your dashboard today. The packaged ESG-readiness Evidence Pack — the dated artefact you hand a buyer, lender or scheme — ships early H2 2026; Annual Founding-Member subscribers receive each release. See ESG-readiness and pricing.
And it earns its keep twice
Because it's the same report that tells you what to fix — which fields are drifting, which process is the limiting factor, where the next bit of effort pays off most — the data doubles as management insight. And a dated, independent record of improving condition positions you for outcome-based payments (PES) as those markets arrive.
We're an ADP, not an MRV
EcoIntel is an ADP — Assessment, Diagnostics, Practical guidance — not an MRV platform. We give you the independent evidence of your land's condition and carbon; we don't issue verified carbon credits. If you want to sell credits, you need an MRV process — EcoIntel is the diagnostic layer beneath it.
Are you the buyer rather than the farm? See the corporate side — CSRD & ESRS E4 for ESG and disclosure teams.
Frequently asked
Am I legally required to report ESG or nature data?
No — as a farm you are almost certainly not in CSRD scope. The pressure comes from your buyers, who are in scope, not from the law. Answering well is about protecting your market access — premiums, preferred-supplier status, and favourable finance and insurance terms.
Will this take a lot of my time?
No — that is the point. It is one map upload, and the satellite does the rest: no field visits, no sensors, no consultant day-rates.
Will my buyer accept satellite data?
It is independent and measured, not self-reported, with a dated baseline and trend structured to ESRS E4 and VSME-style requests — the kind of evidence an auditor accepts. And the value-chain cap means a buyer cannot ask a farm your size for more than the VSME standard.
Does EcoIntel sell carbon credits for me?
No. EcoIntel is an ADP — a diagnostic platform — not an MRV platform; it gives you independent evidence of the condition and carbon of your land, not verified credits. For credits you need an MRV process, and EcoIntel is the diagnostic layer beneath it.
I grow coffee, soya or cattle for EU buyers — does this help with EUDR?
Yes. The EU Deforestation Regulation requires plot-level geolocation and deforestation-free checks for commodities like cattle, cocoa, coffee, soya and wood (now applying from end-2026). Field-level, geospatial condition data is exactly the kind of evidence that supports it.
Regulatory position — reviewed June 2026
- CSRD value-chain reach — law Directive (EU) 2026/470 (buyers in scope request value-chain data).
- VSME & value-chain cap — voluntary standard becoming the legal request ceiling (delegated act expected summer 2026).
- EUDR — law, application postponed (Reg (EU) 2025/2650; from 30 Dec 2026 / 30 Jun 2027).
- Outcome-based payments (PES) — emerging private markets.
Get ahead of the questions
Open the free demo, or talk to us about Founding-Member access for your farm.