Rules for farmers and land managers
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What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Keep livestock
- Protect animal health and welfare
- Protect the environment if you keep livestock
- Prevent pollution from agricultural fuel oil
- Manage land that you own or occupy
- Use pest control products
- Apply products to your land
- Produce plant varieties and seeds
- Protect landscape features
- Manage trees and woodland
- Manage water
- Manage and dispose of waste
- Make compost, biogas, fertiliser or animal feed
- Get advice
Source and licence
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Rules for farmers and land managers’ (updated 22 April 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026