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  • 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.