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
  • 6 September 2022
  • British Cattle Movement Service and Rural Payments 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
  • 21 September 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Food labelling: country of origin
  • Detailed guide
  • 20 September 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Seasonal Worker visa route request for information (RFI)
  • Notice
  • 27 June 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

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News and communications

• Projects of Landscape Recovery scheme announced
  • 2 September 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Natural England, and Environment Agency
  • Press release
• Tim Smith appointed industry chair of Food and Drink Sector Council
  • 30 August 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • News story
• Government seeks views on reducing livestock methane production
  • 23 August 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Press release
• Boost for farming innovation
  • 22 August 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and UK Research and Innovation
  • Press release
• Government publishes review into automation in horticulture
  • 27 July 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Farming and environment evidence packs - latest editions
  • 26 September 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Research
• Wholesale fruit and vegetable prices
  • 26 September 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Statistical data set
• Banana prices
  • 26 September 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Statistical data set
• Latest poultry and poultry meat statistics
  • 22 September 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics
• Animal feed prices
  • 22 September 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

• Methane suppressing feed products: call for evidence
  • 23 August 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 15 November 2022
• 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
• Animal Health and Welfare Pathway
  • 7 September 2022
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper
• 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

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: April 2022
  • 1 September 2022
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release
• 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

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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
• British Cattle Movement Service