Guidance: SFI scheme information: re-opened offer for 2024

Get paid to manage land sustainably to benefit the environment and support food production: find out if your land is eligible, select and apply for SFI actions.




Poultry catching and handling: proposed changes to permitted methods

Seeking views on proposed changes to how you’re allowed to catch (lift and carry) laying hens and meat chickens when loading and unloading for transport.




Guidance: Pet travel: approved air, sea and rail carriers and routes

Check the transport companies and routes you can use to bring your pet cat, dog or ferret to England, Scotland or Wales.




Guidance: Bird flu: rules on meat produced from poultry and farmed game birds originating in disease control zones

Rules food businesses should follow for any meat produced from poultry or farmed game birds originating within a disease control zone.




Statistics at Defra

We publish national and official statistics relating to the environment, rural communities, food, farming and biosecurity.