Food and farming industry

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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.

• Make or update a rural payments claim

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

• Use Cattle Tracing System (CTS) Online

  Register with BCMS's online service to register cattle births and report cattle deaths and cattle movements online

• Agricultural Sick Pay

  Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get

• Planning permission for farms

  When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision

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Guidance and regulation

• Register land you use to keep livestock
  • Detailed guide
  • 25 January 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Agricultural vehicle licences, tax information and fuel
  • Detailed guide
  • 16 July 2018
  • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Seasonal Worker visa route request for information (RFI)
  • Notice
  • 27 June 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Importing and exporting fresh fruit and vegetables
  • Detailed guide
  • 18 July 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Agricultural tenancies
  • Detailed guide
  • 12 April 2016
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

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News and communications

• Government publishes review into automation in horticulture
  • 27 July 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Press release
• Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill: response to the Scottish Government
  • 23 June 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Correspondence
• New Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and Food Integrity launched
  • 22 June 2022
  • Government Chemist
  • News story
• Genetic Technology Bill: enabling innovation to boost food security
  • 25 May 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Press release
• Webinar: The Global Honey Supply Chain
  • 19 April 2022
  • Government Chemist
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Historical balance sheet analysis and farming performance, England
  • 9 August 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Official statistics
• Wholesale fruit and vegetable prices
  • 8 August 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Statistical data set
• Banana prices
  • 8 August 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Statistical data set
• Animal feed prices
  • 4 August 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Statistical data set
• Latest UK milk prices and composition of milk
  • 28 July 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Yr arferion mewn contractau yn sector moch y DU
  • 15 July 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 07 October 2022
• Contractual practice in the UK pig sector
  • 15 July 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 07 October 2022
• Improved food waste reporting by large food businesses in England
  • 13 June 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 05 September 2022
• UK-New Zealand FTA: report under Section 42 of Agriculture Act 2020
  • 21 July 2022
  • Department for International Trade and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper
• Government food strategy
  • 13 June 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: March 2022
  • 24 June 2022
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release
• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: February 2022
  • 27 May 2022
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release
• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: January 2022
  • 14 April 2022
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release
• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: December 2021
  • 2 March 2022
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release
• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: November 2021
  • 15 February 2022
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release

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Organisations

• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Rural Payments Agency
• Animal & Plant Health Agency
• Groceries Code Adjudicator
• Department for International Trade

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• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
• Veterinary Medicines Directorate
• Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment
• Department for Transport
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Home Office
• Northern Ireland Office
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• Department for Work & Pensions
• Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Marine Management Organisation
• RDPE Network
• Cabinet Office
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
• HM Treasury
• UK Visas and Immigration

• Government Chemist
• Environment Agency
• Natural England
• Forestry Commission