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Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.
How to market eggs, including rules on registration, egg marking, salmonella control and egg marketing inspections in England and Wales.
How to comply with food standards law when producing, importing or selling bread and flour.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
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.
Check the land details you have registered on the Rural Payments service.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Guidance for businesses that import meat, dairy, eggs and animal products for human consumption. Check import rules, restrictions and what documents you need.
Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.
How farm business tenants and landlords can claim compensation for improvements, terminate a tenancy and ask for a rent review.
Find out how much funding you can claim, to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
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.
Use this service to notify the Environment Agency if you plan to construct a new or substantially enlarge an existing silage, slurry or agricultural fuel oil store, or store field silage on a new site.
How to import or move live animals and germinal products from the EU to Great Britain.
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
Get a breed code to register a cattle, bison or buffalo birth.
U10 exemption lets you spread certain wastes on agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
Calculate the annual nitrogen and phosphorus emissions from your livestock. Report the data to the Environment Agency.
What you must record in a holding register (also called a flock or herd record), when to update it and what to use.
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