An article on the Farmers Weekly website about BCMS record keeping highlighted the importance of having a routine to ensure timely and accurate cattle passport applications and movement notifications. Farmers are increasingly moving to electronic reporting rather than using the postal service. … Continue reading →
As well as sending out key documents via the postal service, documents for cattle keepers can be accessed via the BCMS section of the Rural Payments Agency website (www.rpa.gov.uk). Following the main link for BCMS gives access to a library … Continue reading →
An article on cattle records in today’s Farmers Weekly contains a quote from a Cross Compliance adviser claiming that around 50% of livestock farms inspected failed on cattle identification and/or movements. Obviously this represents a very significant cost to individual farmers and … Continue reading →