Share Farming Could be a Solution for Tenant Retirement The Tenant Farmers Association has suggested that share farming could assist both with easing farm tenants into retirement whilst providing opportunities for new entrants. ...

Chancellor Must Review Farm Land Taxation The Tenant Farmers Association is urging the Chancellor of the Exchequer to review the taxation of farmland, particularly in relation to farm tenancies, as part of the new Government’s first ...

Arable Farmers Need Longer Tenancy Agreements The Tenant Farmers Association will be using its presence at this year’s Cereals Event to further its campaign for longer term Farm Business Tenancies. Launched to coincide with the 20th ...

Council Owned Farms are Assets For Us All The Tenant Farmers Association has defended Council ownership of farms against an attack from the Tax Payers Alliance which said that Councils had no business owning these and other assets. TFA ...

Cross Industry Group to Focus on the Dairy Sector The Tenant Farmers Association is taking part in a new cross-industry group looking to address volatility in the dairy sector. Acknowledging that the current situation in the dairy ...

Is Measuring Total Return From Farmland Leading to Bad Management? The Tenant Farmers Association is questioning whether there is a better way of reporting on the investment performance of farmland than the current practice of using ...

Farming Organisations Agree That Work Needed to Improve Milk Contracts A working group of farming organisations has met to assess the current state of the dairy sector and to review areas where they can work collaboratively. ...

TFA Joins Up With AGRICHATUK for Twitter Debate on Farm Business Tenancies The Tenant Farmers Association is pleased to be working with AgrichatUK – the UK’s foremost, Twitter-based discussion forum for agriculture – ...

TFA Cymru – Sheep Farmers Need Long Term Security TFA Cymru is pleased to be attending, for the first time, the National Sheep Association’s Welsh Sheep Event this year and will be using its presence to highlight the need for sheep ...

Rent Arbitration Result “Good News” for Tenants The Tenant Farmers Association has welcomed the award of an arbitrator in an Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 rent review in Derbyshire which concluded that the rent should remain at a ...

Time For a Farm Rent Revolution The Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) has said the time has come for landlords to expect to see reductions in farm rents particularly for farm tenancies regulated by the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986. ...

Common Sense Prevails for Basic Payment Scheme Applications in England The Tenant Farmers Association has expressed its relief that DEFRA has at last accepted the need to abandon its plans for online only applications for the new Basic ...

Give tax relief only on longer farm business tenancies – TFA The Tenant Farmers Association is running a campaign throughout 2015 for longer Farm Business Tenancies. Farmers Weekly will air a range of views as the debate gathers ...