Livestock Identification & Movement
Livestock ID & Movement: Overview
The short version of what Livestock ID & Movement does and why it exists.
A keeper whose animals cross the England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland border must interact with several separate national systems, each with its own identifiers, timescales and interfaces. This module presents one movement workflow and routes the notification to the correct national system automatically — the single clearest example of what a four-nation platform can do that no single-nation incumbent can.
Detail
Why Livestock ID & Movement exists
A keeper whose animals cross the England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland border must interact with several separate national systems, each with its own identifiers, timescales and interfaces. This module presents one movement workflow and routes the notification to the correct national system automatically — the single clearest example of what a four-nation platform can do that no single-nation incumbent can.
The Livestock Information Service is replacing the Cattle Tracing System for cattle in England, with the switch and bovine electronic identification rescheduled to mid-2027; the service has been live for sheep since March 2022. Scotland operates ScotEID, Wales EIDCymru and Northern Ireland NIFAIS. Cross-border movements consequently require the keeper to know which system governs which leg of the journey.
Everything Livestock ID & Movement records is written into the same platform data spine as every other module, which is why a single entry can satisfy an operational need, a scheme evidence requirement, an assurance clause and a carbon activity line at once. That is the whole design premise: the work is already being done, and it is the recording of it that is duplicated.
The ground reality
What is actually happening in livestock ID & movement in the UK
The Livestock Information Service is replacing the Cattle Tracing System for cattle in England, with the switch and bovine electronic identification rescheduled to mid-2027; the service has been live for sheep since March 2022. Scotland operates ScotEID, Wales EIDCymru and Northern Ireland NIFAIS. Cross-border movements consequently require the keeper to know which system governs which leg of the journey.
Figures are as published at the time of writing. Farm policy and payment rates change frequently — verify against the primary source before relying on any number here.
In the field
Livestock ID & movement, as it actually looks
Photography from working UK holdings alongside the interface that records it. Every frame below is a commissioned slot: the brief is stated until the photograph is taken.
Livestock ID & Movement — a walkthrough
A working pass through livestock ID & movement: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.
- 0:00 What the module is for
- 0:48 Entering the record
- 2:05 Where it appears next
- 3:20 The evidence pack
Photography slots state their own brief until the shot is commissioned, so the layout never shifts when real images arrive.
In practice
Six things Livestock ID & Movement changes on day one
None of these requires a new process. They all come from recording the work you already do, once, in a form the rest of the platform can use.
Unified movement workflow covering on
Unified movement workflow covering on, off, internal and cross-border movements.
Automatic routing to the correct
Automatic routing to the correct national system by holding and species.
County Parish Holding number and
County Parish Holding number and holding identifier management across nations.
Individual animal identification with tag
Individual animal identification with tag, EID and passport records.
Batch movement handling for sheep
Batch movement handling for sheep with individual recording where required.
Movement licence requirements checked against
Movement licence requirements checked against current disease control zones.
End to end
How Livestock ID & Movement runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Identify the animals and the destination
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Check disease zone and licence requirements
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Confirm standstill status
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Generate movement documentation
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Move and record
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Route the notification to the correct national system
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Reconcile confirmation
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Update the holding register
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
How we handle evidence
Where these figures come from
Agrivencia grades every figure it publishes. Primary legislation, official statistics and audit reports are treated as authoritative. Levy body and professional body data is treated as reliable. Commercial trackers and trade press are treated as indicative and labelled as such. Where sources conflict, the conflict is shown rather than resolved silently.
- Authoritative Legislation, statutory instruments, official scheme rules, national audit and public accounts reporting, departmental annual reports and accredited official statistics.
- Reliable Parliamentary committee evidence, peer-reviewed research, independent economic institutes and levy body analysis.
- Supporting Professional bodies, land agents, certification schemes and industry associations.
- Indicative Commercial market trackers and trade press, used for corroboration only and always labelled.
Payment rates, caps and windows in UK farm support change frequently and sometimes without notice. Nothing on this platform is a substitute for the current published scheme rules or for professional advice.
See it working
Book a demonstration on your own holding data
Thirty minutes, using your parcels and your schemes rather than a sample farm, so you can judge it on your own numbers.