Digital Pesticide Record-Keeping for EU Cooperatives: Achieve Compliance with Farmable Enterprise
Cooperatives play a critical role in supporting EU farms with their spray records. Learn how plan protection product records are changing in 2026 and how agronomists and cooperatives can help. The new regulation will apply from January 1, 2026.
Introduction: EU Agricultural Record-Keeping is changing
Starting January 1, 2026, Regulation (EU) 2023/564 mandates that farmers and spray operators using plant protection products (PPPs) must keep detailed, electronic, machine-readable records. Agricultural cooperatives and agronomists—key to supporting farms—now face heightened demands for precision, timeliness, and traceability in their record-keeping. Farmable Enterprise is purpose-built to meet these requirements, helping cooperatives manage compliance, streamline operations, and empower advisors across entire networks.
Why Regulation (EU) 2023/564 Matters for EU Cooperatives
Under Regulation (EU) 2023/564, cooperatives and advisors must support their farming members spray records:
- Product name and authorisation number for plant protection products
- Date/time of application, dosage, and treated area size
- Geospatial identifiers or CAP-based field IDs
- Crop or land use using EPPO codes and BBCH growth stages
- Format must be electronic and machine-readable, in line with Directive (EU) 2019/1024
- Records must be updated without delay or within 30 days if initially non-electronic, and made available promptly to authorities or contractual partners
- These requirements are directly applicable across all Member States from January 1, 2026 EUR-Lex+1
How Farmable Enterprise Supports Compliance & Operational Efficiency
Farmable Enterprise is powerful web portal that aggregates farm data from any number of farming businesses. It saves advisory and marketing teams working at cooperatives significant time and stress on data management. Farmable Enterprise now makes it easy to support farms in their EU digital pesticide record keeping.
1. Standardized, Complete, Machine-Readable Records
Farmable Enterprise automatically logs all required plant protection product data—product details, dosage, application timing, field identification via geospatial or CAP mapping, treated area, crop specifics with EPPO and BBCH codes—in an electronic, machine-readable format compliant with EU regulations.
2. Geospatial Integration & Flexible Location Tracking
Cooperatives can import field maps or use CAP geospatial IDs for EU member states with the available infrastructure. If CAP-based identification isn’t available, Farmable supports alternative methods, ensuring compliant location tagging as required.
3. Timely Record Capture & Transition to Electronic Format
Farmable captures spray records in real time—removing the need to monitor data entries being completed within the 30-day window. Obligations on timeliness are automatically met.
4. Effortless Reporting & Data Sharing
Whether for audits, authorities, or internal tracking, Farmable allows cooperatives to export PPP records and seasonal reports as CSV or PDF—fully formatted and ready for use.
5. Aggregate Insights Across Farms
Farmable Enterprise provides a unified dashboard to:
- Monitor job statuses across all member farms
- Aggregate treatment effectiveness, product usage, and harvest data
- Simplify compliance oversight
- Facilitate seasonal planning
6. Custom PPP Lists & Recommendations
Advisors can maintain centrally curated plant protection product lists and share treatment recommendations or seasonal plans with multiple farms—ensuring consistency, compliance, and efficiency across the cooperative network.
7. Scalable, Easy Onboarding
Farmable makes it simple to onboard advisors and member farms via email invitations, with no upfront commitments. Plant protection product lists, field maps, and seasonal plans can then be shared seamlessly across the cooperative.
Why does Farmable get adopted by Cooperatives?
It’s all about trust.
The Farmable platform is trusted by farmers. Read the stories from farmers around Europe who save time and stress on record keeping. The Farmable app offers tools like a tank mix calculator, built-in product lists and smart alerts for product labels compliance; all making compliance easier for the farm manager and their team. This offers the farm a benefit of using the Farmable App beyond EU compliance.
Farm data is securely stored and owned by the farm. Permission is granted by the farm for cooperatives and advisors to access the necessary information putting the farm in control.
Trust from the farmer means quality farm data for the cooperative and advisory team.
Benefits for EU Cooperatives & Agronomists
Farmable Enterprise is already saving time and stress for cooperatives around Europe. With the upcoming regulatory changes, there is no better time to get plant protection product reporting streamlined with your agricultural cooperative. Here is how cooperatives are already benefiting:
- Regulatory Peace of Mind: Full compliance with EU Regulation 2023/564’s content, format, and timing requirements for using plant protection products (PPPs).
- Efficiency Across Scale: Designed for teams managing from dozens to thousands of farms—streamlining data consolidation and compliance.
- Advisory Empowerment: Advisors can deploy consistent, compliant treatment plans and recommendations across member farms easily – offering huge time savings and error-proof recommendations.
- Operational Visibility: Activity dashboards with aggregated spray records and production reporting enable proactive oversight, compliance checks, and performance tracking.
- Cost and Labor Savings: Eliminates spreadsheet chaos—transparency and audit readiness become effortless.
Get Started with Farmable Enterprise Today
Ensure your cooperative or advisory team is ready for January 1, 2026. With Farmable Enterprise, compliance becomes a streamlined, scalable, and collaborative process—not a burden.
Take the Next Step:
- Book a demo and see Farmable Enterprise in action
- Start a commitment-free trial—no long sales cycle required.
- Onboard your advisors and farms in minutes, with a simple email address your journey to compliance is started.
Farmable makes digital pesticide record-keeping reliable, compliant, and cooperative—while making the farm a central to the process.
