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Information on notifiable pests and diseases in fruit and vegetables.
How to apply for a licence to hold a market in England and Wales to sell TB restricted cattle for slaughter, and the procedures to follow when a market is held.
Details of premises approved to operate as exempt markets for cattle in England and Wales.
Guidance for cattle keepers in Scotland and Wales on what happens if TB is identified or suspected in their herd.
Find out where you can source milk or milk products to feed to animals on your farm, and if you need to be on the national milk register.
Details of how the humaneness and effectiveness of badger culling, to prevent the spread of bovine TB in cattle, will be monitored in 2014.
Results of cross compliance inspections in 2013 - including most common failures.
Find out how to carry out a processing test, which is part of validation for continuous animal by-product processing facilities.
Find out when you can apply ash, shellfish shells and eggshells to land as fertiliser without processing.
Find out how to store fertiliser made from processed animal by-products (ABPs) on farms and about grazing restrictions after you apply them.
How to process manure, guano or digestive tract content for sale as a fertiliser in the EU, including how to propose a new treatment method.
This licence allows you to move carcasses, samples, faeces and faecal samples from live poultry or other captive birds.
These documents describe LA-MRSA (Livestock associated Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and the steps you can take to reduce the chance of infection.
You should use this licence to move mammals from or to premises in a protection or surveillance zone where poultry or other captive birds are kept.
This licence allows you to spread on premises or move used poultry litter, poultry manure and poultry slurry originating from premises in a protection zone or a surveillance zone.
List of facilities approved to carry out inspections of imported plants, seeds or produce.
This licence allows you to move poultry carcases for disposal from premises in a protection zone.
Find out what you can do to keep your birds free of avian influenza by registering for one of Defra's webinars.
Information on how your data is used when applying for the groupage export facilitation scheme.
General licence to allow farmers to vaccinate their animals against bluetongue.
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