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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…
Work out how much statutory holiday leave you’re entitled to as an agricultural worker
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
Submit samples to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for commercial testing by APHA Scientific.
Who you should contact if a pet or other animal or human has a reaction to a veterinary medicine or a problem with a microchip.
The rights of agricultural and farm workers - including pay rates, agricultural minimum wage, overtime, holiday leave, rest breaks, help and advice
Training, courses and qualifications for agricultural workers
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.
Order tuberculin from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Collecting land, crops and livestock information and surveying farm management practice with Defra agricultural surveys
Form for Official Veterinarians to submit samples to test for brucellosis in an investigation of abortion or premature calving.
Use this form to report suspected salmonella in animals to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Register on the biomass supplier list so your customers can get the Renewable Heat Incentive
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.
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.
Use this form to apply for an extension or exception if you cannot complete your Official Controls Qualification (OCQ) training or revalidation.
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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