Annex 8B Options that require exclusion of livestock
Published 29 June 2023
Applies to England
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Includes options that require exclusion of livestock for a part or the whole of the year. Also explains when to keep parcel level livestock records and farm level records.
3 - Countryside Stewardship Livestock exclusion options
3A – Parcel level records
There is a group of options which require the exclusion of livestock for a part or the whole of the year.
AB1, AB6, AB7, CT3, CT4, CT5, CT7, GS3, GS7, GS8, GS10, GS12, GS13, GS14, GS15, LH3, OP1, SW3, SW4, SW7, SW8, SW9, SW10, SW11, SW12, WD4, WD5, WD6, WD9, WT7, WT9.
If you have complied with the exclusion requirements then you do not have to keep parcel level livestock records. Instead, the annual declaration on your Countryside Stewardship claim form (that you have complied with the provisions of your agreement) will be evidence that the exclusion has taken place.
If your agreement allows you to graze at some point in the year and you choose to graze, then you need to keep parcel level livestock records as set out in 2A.
3B – Farm level records
If your agreement allows you to graze at some point in the year and you choose to graze you will need to keep a livestock record for your farm, as set out in 1B. This will show that you have complied with the maximum stocking density for your farm and that you therefore have not intensified livestock production.
If you do not graze this land at all during the calendar year you do not need to keep farm level records unless another option in your agreement requires that these records should be kept.
If you use grazing in some years to manage your options, but not in others, your requirement to keep farm level records might change from year to year.
AB1, AB6, AB7, CT3, CT4, CT5, CT7, GS3, GS7, GS8, GS10, GS12, GS13, GS14, GS15, LH3, OP1, SW3, SW4, SW7, SW8, SW9, SW10, SW12, WD4, WD5, WD6, WD9, WT7, WT9.