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Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
Sign in to the Rural Payments service to make a rural payments claim or update your details. Find out how to register for an account.
Collecting land, crops and livestock information and surveying farm management practice with Defra agricultural surveys
Register with BCMS's online service to register cattle births and report cattle deaths and cattle movements online
Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get
When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision.
Work out how much statutory holiday leave you’re entitled to as an agricultural worker
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
Rural Land Register - when you need to register land, how to register, what to send with your application, how to contact Rural Payments Agency
Use this form to apply for a temporary land association (TLA) or temporary county parish holding (tCPH) number. This is needed when you temporarily keep livestock on someone else's land.
Who you should contact if a pet or other animal or human has an unexpected 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
Your legal obligations to ensure the health, safety and welfare of your farm employees and workers
Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) applicants should use this form to query a BPS payment or a Delinked Payments Information Statement.
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.
Register on the biomass supplier list so your customers can get the Renewable Heat Incentive
Apply to sell or market your organic goods in Great Britain after they have been returned from the EU.
If you use this application form you must make sure you comply with the restrictions for rearing pigs or poultry.
Use this form and follow the conditions when you want to use recycled manure solids as bedding for dairy cattle.
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