Food and farming industry
Services
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Get help and support for your business
Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
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Make or update a rural payments claim
Update your details with the Rural Payments Agency to keep claiming payments for your farm land
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Use Cattle Tracing System (CTS) Online
Register with BCMS's online service to register cattle births and report cattle deaths and cattle movements online
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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
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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
Guidance and regulation
- Register land you use to keep livestock
- Agricultural vehicle licences, tax information and fuel
- Seasonal Worker visa route request for information (RFI)
- Importing and exporting fresh fruit and vegetables
- Agricultural tenancies
News and communications
- Government publishes review into automation in horticulture
- Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill: response to the Scottish Government
- New Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and Food Integrity launched
- Genetic Technology Bill: enabling innovation to boost food security
- Webinar: The Global Honey Supply Chain
Research and statistics
- Historical balance sheet analysis and farming performance, England
- Wholesale fruit and vegetable prices
- Banana prices
- Animal feed prices
- Latest UK milk prices and composition of milk
Policy papers and consultations
- Yr arferion mewn contractau yn sector moch y DU
- Contractual practice in the UK pig sector
- Improved food waste reporting by large food businesses in England
- UK-New Zealand FTA: report under Section 42 of Agriculture Act 2020
- Government food strategy
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: March 2022
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: February 2022
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: January 2022
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: December 2021
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: November 2021