We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Get paid to manage land sustainably to benefit the environment and support food production: find out if your land is eligible, select and apply for SFI actions.
Use this service to tell the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) about a change to your kept bird record or to confirm your details every 12 months.
How to import or move live animals and germinal products from the EU to Great Britain.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
What livestock keepers must do when they intend to use someone else's land or buildings temporarily.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to notify the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Find out how to apply for approval under the scheme, how to claim for the subsidy, how much you can claim and what records you need to keep.
How farm business tenants and landlords can claim compensation for improvements, terminate a tenancy and ask for a rent review.
How to market eggs, including rules on registration, egg marking, salmonella control and egg marketing inspections in England and Wales.
Get a breed code to register a cattle, bison or buffalo birth.
What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
What you need to know about delinked payments, who is eligible, how they’re calculated and paid, and how they're affected by business changes.
A list of organisations in England, Scotland and Wales that inspect and certify animals and animal products for export. The list does not include every certifier.
Manage your birds’ housing and welfare when they must be kept inside because of disease outbreaks.
What you must record in a holding register (also called a flock or herd record), when to update it and what to use.
How to comply with food standards law when producing, importing or selling bread and flour.
Read about the requirements and procedures you will need to follow, and how you will need to manage your agreement once you're an agreement holder.
What land use codes to use when declaring land in a rural payments application such as Countryside Stewardship or the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).