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Register with BCMS's online service to register cattle births and report cattle deaths and cattle movements online
Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get.
Agricultural Sick Pay (ASP) means you’re paid at least the Agricultural…
The amount of Agricultural Sick Pay (ASP) you can claim depends on how…
You only have the right to Agricultural Sick Pay if you were employed…
Tell your employer about your sickness or injury and they’ll organise your…
Submit samples to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for commercial testing by APHA Scientific.
When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision.
Your farm vehicle must have the right approval to be registered with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - european community whole vehicle type approval, certificate of conformity, tractor cab certificate of approval
Work out how much statutory holiday leave you’re entitled to as an agricultural worker
Report a problem (adverse event) with animal medicine, animal medicine in the environment or food, or an animal exposed to human medicine.
Training, courses and qualifications for agricultural workers
The rights of agricultural and farm workers - including pay rates, agricultural minimum wage, overtime, holiday leave, rest breaks, help and advice
Collecting land, crops and livestock information and surveying farm management practice with Defra agricultural surveys
Order tuberculin from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Form for Official Veterinarians to submit samples to test for brucellosis in an investigation of abortion or premature calving.
Vets can use this form to submit samples from sheep for a worming treatment check as part of an annual health and welfare review of livestock.
Vets can use this form to test horses for the Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) organism for export and breeding purposes.
Form for Official Veterinarians to submit a brucellosis blood sample report.
Complete if you are applying to rear pigs or poultry in an installation with more than 40,000 places for poultry, 2,000 places for production pigs over 30kg or 750 places for sows.
Use this form to report suspected salmonella in animals to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
If you keep poultry or other captive birds in an AIPZ, use this checklist to make sure you’re meeting the minimum standards to protect them against bird flu.
Submit samples from poultry and gamebirds for diagnostic testing for endemic disease or a post-mortem examination by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
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