Livestock & Animal Husbandry
Animal Health, Welfare & Veterinary
Health planning, medicine records and the disease zone on your doorstep.
Animal health records serve four masters at once: the vet, the assurance scheme, the regulator and the buyer. This module holds the health plan, the medicine book, the testing programme and the disease control status of the holding, and it alerts on the geographically specific obligations that arrive with a restriction zone or a housing order.
- 12 capabilities
- 4 linked schemes
- Offline capable
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 4
- Linked support schemes
- 5
- Data integrations
- 5
- Measures reported
The ground reality
What is actually happening in animal health in the UK
A bluetongue restricted zone covered all of England from 1 July 2025, with Wales declaring an all-Wales zone from 10 November 2025, and avian influenza housing orders followed in November 2025. These are dynamic, geographically specific rules that change movement licensing and housing obligations by holding location. UK antibiotic sales for food-producing animals reached a record low of 15.6 milligrams per kilogram in 2024 on a new metric not directly comparable to earlier years.
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
Animal health, 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.
Animal Health — a walkthrough
A working pass through animal health: 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.
Capabilities
What Animal Health 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
- Herd and flock health plan authored with the veterinary surgeon
- Medicine book with product, batch, withdrawal period and administering person
- Withdrawal period enforcement blocking sale or supply before expiry
Operate and monitor
- Antimicrobial usage calculation and benchmarking against sector metrics
- Bovine tuberculosis testing schedule, results and restriction management
- Bluetongue and notifiable disease zone monitoring by holding location
Comply and evidence
- Avian influenza housing order alerting and compliance record
- Vaccination programme scheduling with due and overdue alerting
- Parasite control programme with anthelmintic resistance stewardship
Analyse and improve
- Annual health and welfare review record and funded visit management
- Veterinary visit records with recommendations and follow-up tracking
- Mortality and post-mortem record with pattern analysis
Interactive
Tools you actually use, not screens you read
These are working interfaces inside the module — maps, calculators, planners and dashboards that respond to your own holding data.
Live disease zone map showing every restriction affecting your holdings
Live disease zone map showing every restriction affecting your holdings
MapWithdrawal period countdown per animal with a hard sale block
Withdrawal period countdown per animal with a hard sale block
ToolAntimicrobial usage dashboard against sector benchmark
Antimicrobial usage dashboard against sector benchmark
DashboardVaccination and testing calendar with overdue escalation
Vaccination and testing calendar with overdue escalation
ToolHealth plan review wizard for the annual veterinary visit
Health plan review wizard for the annual veterinary visit
WizardEnd to end
How Animal Health 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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Author the health plan with the vet
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Record every medicine at administration
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Enforce withdrawal periods
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Schedule and complete testing and vaccination
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Monitor disease zones and act on notices
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Complete the annual health and welfare review
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Benchmark antimicrobial usage
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Assemble evidence for audit and buyers
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Who uses it
Built around four real jobs, not one generic user
Each of these people needs something different from the same record. The module is designed so none of them has to work around the others.
Livestock farmer
Mixed cattle and sheep
Needs to know immediately when a zone changes movement rules.
Veterinary surgeon
Farm practice
Needs complete medicine and health history before writing a plan.
Assurance auditor
Scheme inspection
Needs the medicine book complete and contemporaneous.
Animal health agency officer
Disease control
Needs keepers to have received and acted on zone notifications.
Schemes and funding
Support schemes this module works with
Agrivencia holds these schemes as data, so eligibility, payment rates, caps and windows update the day they change rather than at the next software release.
Animal Health and Welfare Pathway
Fund annual veterinary reviews and capital investment to improve animal health and welfare outcomes.
Defra / Rural Payments Agency Northern IrelandBovine Genetics Programme
Improve the genetic merit of the Northern Ireland cattle herd.
DAERA EnglandSustainable Farming Incentive 2026
Pay farmers for environmental actions taken alongside food production, as the principal replacement for area-based direct payments in England.
Defra / Rural Payments Agency WalesSustainable Farming Scheme
Replace area-based direct payments in Wales with a scheme rewarding sustainable land management outcomes.
Welsh Government / Rural Payments WalesRates, caps and windows change frequently and sometimes without notice. Always confirm against the current published scheme rules before applying.
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.
- 01Antimicrobial usage per kilogram
- 02Withdrawal breaches prevented
- 03Testing completed on schedule
- 04Health plan currency
- 05Mortality rate by class
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
Obligation calendar
What animal health asks of you, and when
Windows, deadlines and recurring obligations for England. Set a different nation and the calendar reconfigures; farm across a border and it shows both, reconciled.
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February 1 entry
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3 February: Animal Health and Welfare Pathway
Rolling application.
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March 2 entries
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3 March: Bovine Genetics Programme
Continuous.
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23 March: Author the health plan with the vet
A recurring step in animal health.
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April 1 entry
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15 April: Record every medicine at administration
A recurring step in animal health.
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May 1 entry
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26 May: Sustainable Farming Scheme
Scheme year runs to 31 December, with the single application form deadline in mid-May.
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June 2 entries
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5 June: Farming Transformation Fund
Round-based by theme.
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15 June: Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026
Two windows in 2026: window one from 30 June, window two from September.
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July 1 entry
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14 July: Slurry Infrastructure Grant
Round-based.
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August 1 entry
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16 August: Schedule and complete testing and vaccination
A recurring step in animal health.
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October 2 entries
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5 October: Farming Equipment and Technology Fund
Round-based, usually open for a defined application period.
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20 October: Enforce withdrawal periods
A recurring step in animal health.
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November 2 entries
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12 November: Improving Farm Productivity Grant
Round-based.
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27 November: Environmental Land Management Capital Grants
Round-based, with rapid allocation once open.
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December 1 entry
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26 December: Countryside Stewardship
Rolling and round-based depending on the tier and option group.
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Questions answered
What people ask about Animal Health
Does this replace the software I already use?
Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.
Will it work where I have no signal?
Yes. Field capture in Animal Health is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.
What happens when the scheme rules change?
Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.
Who owns the data I put in?
You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.
Does it work if I farm across a border?
Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.
Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?
Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.
What is the biggest limitation of this module?
Withdrawal period breach entering the food chain. Mitigated by a hard block rather than a warning. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
Documents
Take it away with you
Everything here is printable and works on a kitchen table with no signal. Where a document asks for an email address, it says so on the button rather than after you press it.
Zones, Withdrawals and the Medicine Book That Passes Every Audit
The practical handbook for animal health: what the rules require, what the evidence has to show, and the mistakes that cost people money.
animal health — evidence checklist
Every document an audit or a claim asks for, in the order it is asked for, with the validity period of each.
animal health — record template
The record structure the module uses, as a spreadsheet, so a business not yet on the platform can start keeping it correctly today.
Data model reference
Entities, fields and integration points for animal health, for advisers and software partners.
See Animal Health running on your own holding
Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.
- Free tier available
- No card required
- Your data stays yours