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  • How to apply for a grant to restock or improve woodland after tree health problems, and how to manage your funding agreement.

  • Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.

  • Farmers and land owners can use the ‘add land’ email service to link land parcels to their business. Land parcels must already be registered in the Rural Payments service.

  • Guidance for food businesses on selling, sampling and testing raw drinking milk, including information on tuberculosis and raw cows' drinking milk.

  • Sheep and goat owners and keepers must follow the conditions of this licence when they move sheep or goats.

  • Allocation coefficients and decision

  • Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.

  • Legislation on animal feed applies to a wide range of animal feed businesses and activities. This page contains further guidance on key legislation affecting businesses involved with animal feed.

  • List of sheep and goat tag suppliers approved by the Rural Payments Agency.

  • Rules on buffer strips that you must follow if you have hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.

  • Find out what information you need to show on products made of or containing meat that you sell to the public.

  • You can give other people permission to act for your business, like an agent.

  • Supplementary guidance to help businesses understand their responsibilities when conducting taste trials involving novel foods.

  • Who to contact if you keep livestock (including as pets) when your registered details change.

  • Find out how to import live fish, molluscs and crustaceans for farming, ornamental, or any other purpose except direct human consumption

  • How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.

  • How to provide enough storage and keep storage records of organic manures in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).

  • Check if your business in Great Britain or one of the Crown Dependencies is approved to export to the EU and find out what your TRACES number is.

  • Farmers should send this guidance to their vet, so they can see what to do on a review or follow-up. This guidance includes details of testing, how to advise, and what information to provide.

  • The differences between the 3 types of bottled water, and what bottled water is exempt from the rules.