Warning to check farmers’ agreement number before doing Pathway Follow Up visits
The agreement number must start with IAHW and not AHWR. If the agreement number was issued before the end of June 2024, it will start with AHWR and AHWR agreements now only allow for a single claim for a Review – this changed in January 2025, prior to that you could claim a Follow Up with an AHWR agreement.
From January 2025, farmers with an existing AHWR agreement need to sign up for a new agreement before they can do a Follow Up. The new agreement number will start with IAHW. If they’ve already claimed for a Review on the AHWR number, farmers can go ahead with a Follow Up and claim for it with their new IAHW reference, providing the claim is made within 10 months of the Review claim and that the IAHW number was issued before they did the Follow Up.
An IAHW agreement allows for multiple claims – up to three Reviews and Follow Ups until the scheme ends in June 2027.
There is some information on this on the gov.uk website at