Food and farming

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Services

• Get help and support for your business

  Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.

• Food business registration

  You must register with the council to run a food business - fines, penalties

• Make or update a rural payments claim

  Update your details with the Rural Payments Agency to keep claiming payments for your farm land

• Poultry (including game birds): registration rules and forms

  How and when you must register as a poultry or game bird keeper and how to register voluntarily (if you keep birds, such as chickens, as pets)

• Food labelling and packaging

  Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards

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Guidance and regulation

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for people in England with animals
  • Detailed guide
  • 4 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Avian influenza (bird flu)
  • Detailed guide
  • 25 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Accessing food and essential supplies
  • Detailed guide
  • 4 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Food and drink labelling changes from 1 January 2021
  • Detailed guide
  • 5 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Countryside Productivity Scheme
  • Detailed guide
  • 5 November 2020
  • Rural Payments Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and Rural Development Programme for England Network

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News and communications

• New UK-wide advice on ear tags for livestock exporters
  • 25 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Press release
• UK veterinary antibiotics sales among lowest levels recorded in Europe
  • 18 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Veterinary Medicines Directorate
  • Press release
• Availability of Lactating Cow Intramammary Antibiotics
  • 13 November 2020
  • Veterinary Medicines Directorate
  • News story
• Landmark Agriculture Bill becomes law
  • 11 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • News story
• Edition 23: News from the Adjudicator
  • 9 November 2020
  • Groceries Code Adjudicator
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Quota use statistics
  • 26 November 2020
  • Marine Management Organisation
  • Statistical data set
• Latest UK milk prices and composition of milk
  • 26 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics
• Historical statistics notices on UK milk prices and composition of milk, 2020
  • 26 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics
• Avian influenza (bird flu) in Europe, Russia and in the UK
  • 25 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Research
• Historical statistics notices on poultry and poultry meat production, 2020
  • 24 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Developing a national food strategy: call for evidence
  • 18 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 25 October 2019
• Reducing ammonia emissions from urea fertilisers
  • 3 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 26 January 2021
• UK Surveillance Forum (UKSF) terms of reference
  • 8 October 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Welsh Government, The Scottish Government, and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
  • Policy paper
• Bovine TB: government badger control costs
  • 7 September 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper
• Advice to Natural England on setting minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be controlled in 2020
  • 7 September 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Bovine TB: compensation value tables
  • 2 November 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Transparency
• European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) implementation reports
  • 23 October 2020
  • Marine Management Organisation
  • Corporate report
• Government Chemist 2019 Annual Review
  • 22 July 2020
  • Government Chemist
  • Corporate report
• Rural Payments Agency annual report and accounts 2019 to 2020
  • 14 July 2020
  • Rural Payments Agency
  • Corporate report
• GCA closing meeting with retailer CCOs on 22 June 2020
  • 23 June 2020
  • Groceries Code Adjudicator
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Rural Payments Agency
• Animal & Plant Health Agency
• Marine Management Organisation
• Veterinary Medicines Directorate

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• Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
• Groceries Code Adjudicator
• Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment
• Public Health England
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
• Department for International Trade
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• Department for Transport
• HM Treasury
• Northern Ireland Office
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Government Office for Science
• RDPE Network
• Home Office
• Cabinet Office
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Government Veterinary Services
• Department for Work & Pensions
• Civil Nuclear Constabulary
• Civil Nuclear Police Authority
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Ministry of Defence
• Office for Product Safety & Standards
• Science Advisory Council
• Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee
• Border Force
• Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
• Maritime & Coastguard Agency
• Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Tribunal Procedure Committee
• UK Export Finance
• Veterinary Products Committee

• Natural England
• Environment Agency
• Government Chemist
• Forestry Commission
• British Cattle Movement Service
• Innovate UK
• UK Co-ordinating Body
• UK Hydrographic Office
• Marine Accident Investigation Branch
• Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
• Council for Science and Technology
• Defence Equipment and Support
• HM Prison Service
• Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
• Migration Advisory Committee
• Rail Accident Investigation Branch
• UK Space Agency

Explore sub-topics

• Common Agricultural Policy reform
• Farming and food grants and payments
• Food and farming industry
• Keeping farmed animals
• Producing and distributing food