Livestock Identification & Movement
Livestock ID & Movement: For Advisers & Agents
What Livestock ID & Movement changes for agronomists, agents, vets and consultants.
Advisers need scoped access, defensible records and a way to work across a client base without re-keying. 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.
In their words
What the job actually looks like
These are not marketing personas. Each one is a distinct job with a distinct constraint, and the module is designed so that solving one does not create work for the others.
Animal health inspector
Traceability inspection
Needs a complete, reconciled holding register.
- Identify the animals and the destination
- Check disease zone and licence requirements
- Confirm standstill status
- Generate movement documentation
Market operator
Auction mart
Needs movements reported accurately and promptly for every lot.
- Check disease zone and licence requirements
- Confirm standstill status
- Generate movement documentation
- Move and record
Livestock haulier
Multi-farm collections
Needs movement documents and licences correct before loading.
- Confirm standstill status
- Generate movement documentation
- Move and record
- Route the notification to the correct national system
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.
Capabilities
What Livestock ID & Movement does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Unified movement workflow covering on, off, internal and cross-border movements
- Automatic routing to the correct national system by holding and species
- County Parish Holding number and holding identifier management across nations
Operate and monitor
- Individual animal identification with tag, EID and passport records
- Batch movement handling for sheep with individual recording where required
- Movement licence requirements checked against current disease control zones
Comply and evidence
- Standstill period calculation and enforcement with clear release dates
- Holding register maintenance in the statutorily required format
- Bovine electronic identification readiness for the mid-2027 transition
Analyse and improve
- Movement document generation and retention
- Reconciliation against the national system with discrepancy resolution
- Inspection preparation pack with a complete movement history
Traceability
The chain behind one batch
Livestock traceability is statutory, the reporting window is short, and it runs through a different national system in each nation. The record is assembled as the animal moves rather than reconstructed at audit.
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Born on holding
- Who
- Holding of birth
- Evidence
- Ear tag applied and registered
- Held in
- British Cattle Movement Service
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Health intervention
- Who
- Veterinary practice
- Evidence
- Medicine record with withdrawal period
- Held in
- Medicine book
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Moved
- Who
- Haulier
- Evidence
- Statutory movement report within the reporting window
- Held in
- British Cattle Movement Service
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Received
- Who
- Destination holding
- Evidence
- Arrival recorded, standstill applied
- Held in
- Holding register
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Slaughtered
- Who
- Approved abattoir
- Evidence
- Kill sheet, classification and food chain information
- Held in
- FSA
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Sold
- Who
- Buyer
- Evidence
- Batch linked to the carcase and the holding of origin
- Held in
- Platform record
Take the record with you
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Livestock ID & Movement
The problem: Needs one workflow instead of two portals and two sets of rules.
What they do
- Identify the animals and the destination
- Check disease zone and licence requirements
- Confirm standstill status
- Generate movement documentation
What changes
- Movements reported within the statutory window
- Reconciliation discrepancies
- Standstill breaches prevented
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Movements reported within the statutory window
- 02Reconciliation discrepancies
- 03Standstill breaches prevented
- 04Holding register completeness
- 05Cross-border movements handled without error
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.