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
- Import risk categories for animals and animal products imported from the EU to Great Britain, from 31 October 2023
- Importing and exporting fresh fruit and vegetables
- Seasonal Worker visa route request for information (RFI)
News and communications
- Coffey: We’re listening and making ELMs work for upland farmers
- Scrapping retained EU red tape on wine to unlock £180 million
- UK leads the way on agricultural innovation at Washington D.C. Climate Summit
- Rural Payments Agency update - April 2023
- Webinar: Testing for CBD in novel foods
Research and statistics
- Historical national statistics notices on milk utilisation by dairies, 2023
- Wholesale fruit and vegetable prices
- Banana prices
- Latest UK milk prices and composition of milk
- Animal feed prices
Policy papers and consultations
- Contractual practice in the UK pig sector
- Review of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013
- Government Chemist Strategy 2023-2026
- Nature markets
- Environmental Land Management update: how government will pay for land-based environment and climate goods and services
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: December 2022
- National Reference Laboratory for Trichinella and Echinococcus: annual reports
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: November 2022
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: October 2022
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: September 2022