Food and farming industry

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

Register land you use to keep livestock
- Detailed guide
- 16 December 2019
- 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
Importing and exporting fresh fruit and vegetables
- Detailed guide
- 18 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Webinars and videos for organisations that trade with the EU
- Detailed guide
- 8 April 2021
- Cabinet Office
Rules for farmers and land managers to prevent water pollution
- Detailed guide
- 2 April 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Environment Agency

Plans to unlock power of gene editing unveiled
- 29 September 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Food Standards Agency
- Press release
Up to 5,500 poultry workers to help deliver Christmas dinners
- 26 September 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department for Transport, Home Office, and UK Visas and Immigration
- News story
New labelling to fly the flag for our farmers and give shoppers better information
- 13 September 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Mexican market opens its doors for imports of British pork
- 2 September 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department for International Trade, and Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
- Press release
Welsh Gower Salt Marsh Lamb first new registration under new UK Geographical Indication schemes
- 11 August 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release

Genetically Modified Organisms: Oxford Vaccine Group (20/R48/01a)
- 25 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Research
Genetically Modified Organisms: Oxford Vaccine Group (20/R48/01)
- 25 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Research
Latest UK milk prices and composition of milk
- 25 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- National statistics
Historical statistics notices on agricultural price indices, 2021
- 25 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- National statistics
Wholesale fruit and vegetable prices
- 22 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Statistical data set

Changes to UK wine legislation
- 25 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 23 September 2021
Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) reform
- 17 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Open consultation
- Closing date 10 January 2022
Poultrymeat Marketing Regulations (PMMR) enforcement
- 8 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Welsh Government, and The Scottish Government
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 09 August 2021
Domestic food legislation: amendments to rules in England
- 29 July 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 22 March 2021
Pigmeat: declaration relating to exceptional market conditions in the pigmeat sector
- 11 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper

FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: June 2021
- 25 November 2021
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Foi release
FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: May 2021
- 25 November 2021
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Foi release
FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: April 2021
- 5 November 2021
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Foi release
FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: December 2020
- 5 November 2021
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Foi release
FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: March 2021
- 18 October 2021
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Foi release

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