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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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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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
Guidance and regulation
- Register land you use to keep livestock
- Agricultural vehicle licences, tax information and fuel
- Importing and exporting fresh fruit and vegetables
- Storing silage, slurry and agricultural fuel oil
- Meat products: sell them legally in England
News and communications
- Webinar: Testing for CBD in novel foods
- Rural Payments Agency opens application windows for farm payments for 2023
- UK and Thailand sign MoU for agricultural cooperation
- Secretary of State Thérèse Coffey's address at NFU conference
- Farming Minister Mark Spencer: National Farmers Union Conference
Research and statistics
- Latest poultry and poultry meat statistics
- Livestock prices, finished and store
- Animal feed prices
- Historical statistics notices on poultry and poultry meat production, 2023
- British Wool Review 2022
Policy papers and consultations
- Review of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013
- Methane suppressing feed products: call for evidence
- Environmental Land Management update: how government will pay for land-based environment and climate goods and services
- Animal Health and Welfare Pathway
- UK-New Zealand FTA: report under Section 42 of Agriculture Act 2020
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: October 2022
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: September 2022
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: July 2022
- National Reference Laboratory for Trichinella and Echinococcus: annual reports
- FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: June 2022