Check CAP Entitlement Clauses in Farm Tenancies The Tenant Farmers Association urges all English farm tenants and particularly those with Farm Business Tenancies ending this year, to check their agreements for clauses which might ...

The Royal Welsh: A Great Celebration of Welsh Farming TFA Cymru Chairman Dennis Matheson is attending the Royal Welsh Show both to celebrate the great Welsh farming industry and to highlight issues of particular concern to the tenanted ...

TFA Welcomes Liz Truss to New Role in DEFRA The Tenant Farmers Association has written to Liz Truss MP, welcoming her to her new role as DEFRA Secretary Of State. TFA Chief Executive George Dunn said “The TFA would first like to pay ...

National Trust Farm and Housing Tenants Share Joint Concerns The Tenant Farmers Association has joined with the Tenants Association of the National Trust, which represents the residential tenants of the National Trust, to express their ...

Ode to the Auction By Fred Cactus When we’re born we all know nothing, We have everything to learn. But soon find out in this big world Our living we must earn So we sell our wares, we toil and strive We rush about with speed Trying ...

Push for Contract and Share Farming “Misguided” The Tenant Farmers Association has branded as misguided the current trend to support the increasing use of contract and share farming agreements. Speaking in advance of this ...

DEFRA TB Decision Will Lead to Farm Bankruptcies The Tenant Farmers Association has written to DEFRA Minister George Eustice MP calling for DEFRA to overturn its decision to ban partial derestriction of TB breakdown holdings. Currently ...

The humble tile drain, unseen and somewhat forgotten How things change.  It’s not long ago that the only media interest that would have been shown in sheep was an article in a farming journal, or a paper back “Henry Brewis” ...

Michael Halford 1931 – 2014: An Ambassador for the Tenanted Sector of Agriculture The Tenant Farmers Association is sad to have learnt of the death of one of its past National Chairmen, Michael Halford. TFA Chief Executive, ...

Budget 2014 – Another Missed Opportunity for Farm Tenancies The Tenant Farmers Association has written to Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to express its disappointment that yet another Budget statement has passed by ...

TFA Wins Planning Protection for Farm Tenants The Tenant Farmers Association is pleased that the Government has listened to its concerns over the extension of permitted rights to develop farm buildings into houses and has agreed to ...

No Justification for Farm Rents to Increase This Year The Tenant Farmers Association has warned agricultural landlords and their agents that there is no scope for rent increases this year on farm tenancies regulated by the Agricultural ...

Tenant Farmers Association THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING WEDNESDAY, 05 MARCH 2014 Report from the National Chairman It is an honour to have the privilege of leading the Tenant Farmers Association for the next three years as ...