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Sandy by Trinity AgTech is a software platform which helps farms and supply chain businesses optimise natural capital to drive efficiencies, profitability & supply chain resilience
About
Trinity AgTech exists to unlock confident, future-proofed decision-making for farmers and supply chains by making natural capital visible, understandable, and actionable. At the core of our innovation is Sandy, a uniquely science-led platform that provides not only robust valuations of natural capital—such as soil health, carbon, water, and biodiversity—but also the cause-and-effect insights that reveal how farming practices impact these vital assets. Unlike conventional tools that focus narrowly on compliance or data capture, Sandy enables users to ask better questions, understand system dynamics, and make practical, economically grounded decisions based on clear evidence and aligned and compliant with all major global standards.
The challenge we solve is simple but urgent: farm businesses are under pressure to reduce emissions, respond to policy and market demands, and build climate resilience, yet most lack the tools to do this with confidence. Current offerings either oversimplify complex systems, fail to reflect real farm conditions, or offer limited value beyond reporting. This leaves producers stuck between ambition and uncertainty, unable to plan or prioritise effectively. Our solution addresses this by equipping them with tailored insights—whether that’s identifying how grazing strategies influence soil carbon, which fields hold the greatest biodiversity potential, or where emissions intensity can be reduced without compromising output.
With Sandy, farmers and landowners can not only quantify their environmental performance, but also understand why it looks the way it does, how it can be improved, and what outcomes different management pathways are likely to deliver. This positions them to make smarter investment decisions, engage with nature markets, and deliver sustainability in a commercially viable way. Trinity AgTech’s approach shifts natural capital from a compliance burden to a strategic asset—supporting a more resilient, productive, and climate-positive future for British agriculture.
Key Benefits
Understanding and valuing natural capital—such as soil health, water resources, carbon stocks, and biodiversity—provides farm businesses with a critical foundation for more resilient and profitable decision-making. By identifying the cause-and-effect relationships between farming practices and natural capital outcomes, producers can move beyond compliance-driven or anecdotal approaches and begin to quantify the real-world impacts of their management choices. For example, knowing how specific grazing strategies influence soil carbon sequestration, water retention, or nitrous oxide emissions enables farmers to optimise stocking rates, rotation plans, or input use in a way that improves both environmental performance and financial returns.
This level of insight transforms the way farmers respond to environmental pressures and policy shifts. Instead of seeing sustainability as a cost or a constraint, they can understand the levers within their own system that drive outcomes—such as which fields are best suited for different production methods, where methane reductions are most achievable, or how different feed regimes or sward management impact total GHG emissions in livestock. It enables strategic investments in practices with measurable, positive outcomes - for example; enhancing grassland productivity while reducing emissions intensity in beef systems.
Crucially, this understanding also supports new income streams through access to nature markets and ecosystem services. A robust valuation of natural capital provides the credible evidence needed to participate in sustainability-linked supply contracts, access new markets such as carbon & biodiversity trading and green-schemes like BNG. For progressive farm businesses, this approach doesn’t just answer the question “what should I do?”—it reveals “what works best here, and why?”—allowing them to design a path that aligns business resilience with environmental leadership.
Applications
Trinity AgTech’s target market spans the full spectrum of global agriculture—from small family-run farms, subsistence farming to large-scale enterprises, and from direct producers to vertically integrated supply chains operating on a global scale. Our technology is designed to reflect the diversity of real-world farming, with highly specific and independently validated models tailored to different enterprise types—beef, dairy, arable, horticulture, mixed farming and more. Crucially, these models are regionally calibrated, accounting for climate, soil type, management system and local market dynamics, ensuring that every insight delivered through Sandy is accurate, relevant and immediately applicable to the user’s unique context.
Whether supporting an upland livestock farm in Cumbria, a regenerative arable estate in East Anglia, or a co-op of tree-crop producers in Europe, we cater for all farm sizes and systems with equal precision. For supply chains, our platform offers scalable aggregation and benchmarking tools, enabling food businesses, processors and retailers to work confidently with their farmer networks to meet net zero and sustainability targets.
We also recognise that data availability and quality vary widely across the sector. That’s why Sandy is built with cutting-edge AI that can adapt to both data-rich and data-poor environments—intelligently correcting for gaps or inaccuracies in inputs, and guiding users towards progressively more complete and reliable datasets. This makes it possible for any farm, regardless of digital maturity, to access high-quality insights and start their sustainability journey from wherever they are.