TFA Blog #223 – Landscape Recovery and Tenants
14th Mar

2024

The 22 round one Landscape Recovery (LR) projects are roughly half-way through their Project Development Phase (PDP). Work continues to make sure that these projects succeed in a range of land, environment and tenure types. The LR team ...

TFA Blog #222 | Q&A From TFA Webinar: 2023 SFI Rollout for Farmers In England
11th Mar

2024

This TFA Blog features the answers to questions asked at the TFA Webinar: Diving Deeper into Soil Carbon Issues, which was held on 24 January 2024. So often we are told that the only way to improve carbon sequestration on farms is ...

TFA (Member Exclusive) Blog #221 – Grants to Improve Productivity, Slurry management and Animal Health and Welfare
20th Feb

2024

Applications will open soon for the 2024 Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF). This provides grants for equipment and technology that support improvements in productivity, slurry management and animal health and welfare. You ...

TFA Blog #220 – Solar vs. Farming: The Trade-Off Between Green Energy and Food Production
20th Feb

2024

Expanding the use of green energy is important if we are going to tackle climate change. In order for the Government to meet their green energy targets, we are going to need five times as much solar by 2035. Recently, TFA Chief ...

TFA Blog #219 – Working at Height: Are You Fully Assessing Risks?
14th Feb

2024

On 09 February 2024, news broke that a farm business, based in Lancashire, had been fined £320,000 after one of its employees was killed while operating unsafe machinery. A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that ...

TFA Blog #218 – Mental Health: The Biggest Hidden Problem Faced by Farmers
12th Feb

2024

According to the Farm Safety Foundation (FSF), also known as #yellowwellies, 95% of the UK’s young farmers say mental health is one of the biggest hidden problems faced by farmers today.  Given that UK farming has been hit by an ...

TFA Blog #217 – Highlighting Unfairness within Retail Supply Chains
2nd Feb

2024

This blog is the full (unedited) piece, written by George Dunn, TFA Chief Executive, for The Cumberland News and Westmorland Gazette, published on 26 January 2024. Every so often there is a high-profile campaign which captures the ...

TFA Blog #216 – Just How Bad is UK Dairy, Beef or Sheep Farming for the Environment?
26th Jan

2024

4-min Read Right now, UK livestock farmers are feeling browbeaten. Often, it feels like there isn’t a day which goes by when the press isn’t telling us that livestock farming is one of the worst things in the world for carbon. ...

TFA Blog #215 – Nature Market Opportunities for Tenants: Navigating Land Use, Agreements and Collaboration
19th Jan

2024

The Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) was part of a Working Group, hosted by the Green Finance Institute (GFI), on behalf of DEFRA. This looked at current barriers to development of private markets to deliver environmental outcomes. ...

TFA Blog #214: Rising Insurance Costs – How to Protect Your Farming Business
12th Jan

2024

In the face of rising insurance costs, the TFA asked its farm insurance partner, Towergate Insurance Brokers, to suggest ways you can find the best insurance deal for your farm needs. Alan Tate-Smith, Agriculture Development Director ...

TFA Blog #213 – Time to Make Your Voice Heard! TFA Survey to Explore Current State of Landlord Tenant Relationships within the Agricultural Sector
5th Jan

2024

Following the Rock Review into agricultural tenancies, which reported in 2022, DEFRA has issued a call for evidence to explore the extent and nature of poor practice within the landlord tenant sector in agriculture and whether existing ...

TFA Blog #211 – Livestock Farmers Are Our Friends, Not Our Foes
2nd Jan

2024

This blog is the full (unedited) piece, written by George Dunn, TFA Chief Executive, for The Cumberland News and Westmorland Gazette, published on 28 December 2023. All eyes were on Dubai at the beginning of this month as a new climate ...

TFA 2023 Christmas Blog : In Our Christmas Feasting, We Need to Be Mindful of Our Food Security
22nd Dec

2023

This blog is the full (unedited) piece, written by George Dunn, TFA Chief Executive, for the Christmas edition of Methodist Recorder, published on 22 December 2023. For young and old alike, Christmas is a great occasion. As we wave ...