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 ...

NATIONAL SHEEP ASSOCIATION AND TENANT FARMERS ASSOCIATION PRESS RELEASE Thursday 27 February 2015 Learn from the past to stop unintended consequences of environmental stewardship schemes  The single-focus nature of environmental ...

Tenant Farmers Association THIRTY- THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING WEDNESDAY, 04 MARCH 2015 Report from the National Chairman If the buzzword for my report last year was “weather” this year it is definitely “volatility”.  It is ...

TFA AGM:  Landlords Challenged to Better Practice The Tenant Farmers Association’s National Chairman, Stephen Wyrill has challenged agricultural landlords to better practice in their relationships with farm tenants. “In the ...

LAMMA 2015: TFA Backs MPs Call For Groceries Code Review The Tenant Farmers Association has welcomed today’s report from the House of Commons Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee which calls for an urgent review of the ...

2015: TFA Launches Campaign on Farm Business Tenancies The Tenant Farmers Association is launching a campaign in the New Year under the banner “FBT10+: Too short for too long”, aimed at more than doubling the average length of term ...

TFA and FFA Frustrated by Adjudicator’s Lack of Teeth The Tenant Farmers Association and Farmers For Action are calling for an urgent review of the powers of the Groceries Code Adjudicator. Today’s call follows a refusal from the ...

TFA Seeking Good Landlord Tenant Relationships in the Agricultural Sector The Tenant Farmers Association today begins its annual round of formal consultations with some of the country’s leading landlords of agricultural land. TFA ...

TFA Cymru Welcomes Support for the Uplands of Wales TFA Cymru Chairman Dennis Matheson welcomes the written statement by Deputy Minister Rebecca Evans on the Welsh Government’s plans for support for the uplands under the next Rural ...

Milk Price Crash – Serious Choices Face Us All The Tenant Farmers Association believes as a nation it is time to decide what sort of dairy industry we want to see in our country and to put together a plan to achieve that vision. ...

DEFRA TB Strategy for England Needs More Work The Tenant Farmers Association believes that DEFRA’s TB eradication strategy falls short in some areas and contains unjustified and damaging measures in others. TFA National Chairman ...

No Silver Bullet to Address Dairy Downturn The Tenant Farmers Association believes that a range of measures, rather than one silver bullet, is needed to tackle the current downturn in the dairy market and unless the whole of the ...