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Farming

Keeping farmed animals: Animal welfare, bovine TB, cattle movements, importing and exporting farmed animals, and more.

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• Organisations: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, and Rural Payments Agency

Livestock movements and CPH numbers - changes from 2016.

Producing and distributing food: Crops and horticulture, dairy and milk production, meat production and more.

Rural grants and payments: Basic Payment Scheme, Countryside Stewardship, cross compliance and more.

Land management: Organic farming, Energy Crops Scheme, protected sites and more.

Farming business: Cattle Tracing System (CTS) Online, report pig movements, register a milk production holding and more.

Defra Rural Services helpline

Telephone 03000 200 301

Contact the Defra Rural Services helpline for farming-related advice.
Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm.
You should also call us 24/7 to report suspicion of notifiable disease in animals.
Find out about call charges at www.gov.uk/call-charges.

All farming-related services and information

Latest

1. Lump Sum Exit Scheme

   • 12 April 2022
   • Collection

2. Farming Investment Fund

   • 17 March 2022
   • Guidance

3. Request a forecast statement for a lump sum payment

   • 8 February 2022
   • Guidance

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Subscriptions

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Documents

Publications

1. Apply to register temporary use of land to keep livestock

   • 29 April 2021
   • Form

2. Woodland tree health grant manual 2017: Countryside Stewardship

   • 27 March 2018
   • Guidance

3. Hedgerows and boundaries grant manual 2016: Countryside Stewardship

   • 1 February 2016
   • Guidance

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Consultations

1. New rules to tackle diffuse water pollution from agriculture in England

   • 30 November 2017
   • Consultation outcome

2. Bovine TB: improving testing in the High Risk Area of England

   • 16 December 2016
   • Consultation outcome

3. Bovine TB: controls in the High Risk and Edge Areas of England

   • 16 December 2016
   • Consultation outcome

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Announcements

1. New measures to help farmers and growers in the food supply chain

   • 16 February 2018
   • Press release

2. Farmers set for increased payments as the Rural Payments Agency confirms BPS 2017 entitlement and greening rates

   • 17 November 2017
   • Press release

3. Countryside Stewardship claims are just a click away

   • 10 April 2017
   • News story

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Detailed guidance

• Farming Investment Fund
• Request a forecast statement for a lump sum payment