Moving from Farmbench
An independent replacement for AHDB Farmbench, built for the farms and discussion groups that relied on it.
AHDB closed its Farmbench benchmarking service at the end of September 2026. bench.farm carries on the same kind of benchmarking for arable farms: your crops' costs of production and margins, set against AHDB's national figures, other farms like yours and your own discussion group — with your Farmbench history brought across so your trends carry on unbroken.
What stays the same
- The same structure. A farm, its production years, and each year's crops, with output, crop costs and whole-farm costs shared across the crops, so your figures have the same meaning.
- The same national comparison. Your crops can be compared against published national benchmarks: the top 25%, middle 50% and bottom 25% of farms.
- Your discussion group. Groups carry on, with a leader who arranges a winter meeting to compare your figures.
- Submit when you're ready. Nothing you enter is compared until you review your results and submit them.
Bringing your Farmbench data across
If you can still log in to Farmbench, export each year as below and then upload them when you sign up to bench.farm
- In Farmbench, choose Load Farms and open your farm.
- Click Reports beside the production year you want.
- Choose Multi enterprise report.
- Set With comparison to No, and tick every enterprise.
- Click Export to Excel.
- Repeat for each year you have.
You can select all your downloaded files together below — each one is read to find its year.
Each file is processed to find its year and crops. Your costs and margins can be now be compared over time, to see hidden trend
What's new
- Standardised prices and rent. Compare how well a crop was grown, separately from how well it was sold, or whether the land is owned or rented.
- Where you stand. Your rank against the national bands, and among member farms for yield, price, margins and cost of production.
- Advanced analysis. What constitutes the gap to the top 25% — growing, selling or costs — and which crops drive your farm's profit, averaged over several years.
- Trends over time from your first imported year.
- Scratchpad quickly key in your application records, then add prices later from your accounting records, and most of your crop costs are automatically calculated.
Who runs it
bench.farm is run by CSEQ Technologies Ltd. It is self-funded and run entirely for the benefit of farmers: your data is never sold or shared outside the service, and other farms only ever see anonymous figures pooled across several farms. See the privacy policy for the detail.
bench.farm is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, AHDB. Farmbench is AHDB's name for its former service. National benchmark figures are AHDB's published data.