You know the land, the seasons, the livestock. What nobody warned you about was the forms. The planning inspector who'd never been in a field. The grant scheme that closed on a Tuesday morning with no announcement. The contract with a sentence in paragraph nine that quietly moves all the risk onto you. Fae lives on your phone, works without signal, and knows that stuff cold. Free. No account.
Get Fae - it's free iPhone · Mac · Offline · No account · FreeCosts up. Prices down. Subsidies cut at short notice. Grant windows closed without warning. A policy landscape that changes faster than anyone can keep up with - and the expectation that farmers will navigate all of it while also running a farm.
Across the UK, Europe, and the US, farmers are struggling. Not with farming - but with everything that is now forced on it and surrounds it. The contracts. The regulations. The money going the wrong way. The sense that decisions affecting both land and livelihoods are made by people who have never worked, or even stepped onto, a farm. Fae can't fix the system, but she is able to help you navigate it.
You ask. She answers. In plain language. Without an appointment, a retainer, or a government website that redirects you to a PDF from 2019. Fae does the reading so you don't have to.
Paste in the clause. Fae explains the risk in English, what a fairer version would look like, and whether it's worth pushing back before you sign.
What's open. What you qualify for. What the deadlines are. Without having to work out whether the DEFRA website is current or two years out of date.
What needs prior approval, what needs full planning, what you can do without asking. Before you commission the bat survey that tells you what you could've found out for free.
Planning appeals. Formal objections. Buyer correspondence. Fae drafts it clearly and correctly so the letter doesn't hand them an argument you didn't mean to make.
Break-evens. Risk scenarios. Whether the deal makes sense at these prices. Fae thinks through the logic with you - without charging you for the thinking.
Not just about tax - about keeping the farm operational and in the family. Fae helps you think through the options for succession, transition, and retirement so the next generation inherits something to grow, not just a burden to manage.
I've got a perfectly good advisor, but I don't want to be paying him to explain what a clause means, before I even know if it's worth arguing about.
Confer with another farmer and share information among yourselves, like you used to - no internet, no 'cloud', no 'service provider' in between. A device using Fae also gets a four-word address: "hill · river · moss · gate". If you know the words, you can connect to that other person - directly.
Compare what a merchant offered you versus what he offered your neighbour. Share what you found out about a grant deadline. Talk through a planning battle with someone who's already been through one. The kind of conversation that's always happened at the auction, in the pub, at the gate - but now from the cab, with no one else able to read, store, or track it.
Bad harvest. Broken machine. A bad season on top of a policy change on top of a contract dispute. All of it, often at once, often alone, often before anyone else is awake. Fae doesn't fix that - but she's there at 4am when nothing else is, and she won't tell you to look on the bright side.
If things are difficult, the Farming Community Network (fcn.org.uk) and RABI (rabi.org.uk) offer confidential support for farmers and families. Fae can help you find what's available near you.
Fae runs entirely on your phone. No server. No company reading your questions. What you ask about your contracts, your succession plans, your margins, your situation - stays on your device. Nobody else ever sees it.
Not DEFRA. Not a tech company. Not anyone. Free. No account. No subscription. Download once, use however you need - whenever you need it.
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