Legislative and Taxation Reform of Agricultural Tenancies Must Go Hand in Hand Piece originally written by George Dunn, TFA Chief Executive, for The Cumberland News and Westmorland Gazette, published on the 26 April 2019 I am ...

As of 10 May 2019 and in response to an increase in enquiries following the revoking of the long-standing General Licenses (GL04, GL05 and GL06) Natural England have answered some of the most frequently asked questions below to help ...

Every year there are deaths and injuries to farmers and other workers while handling livestock. These are often caused by using poor equipment, ineffective methods of moving stock and an underestimation of the strength, speed or ...

Who is Looking Forward to Controlling Our Own Laws Post Brexit? Piece originally written by George Dunn, TFA Chief Executive, for The Cumberland News and Westmorland Gazette, published on the 25 January 2019 A much-vaunted benefit of ...

Time to Put Grazing Livestock Back at the Heart of Future Policy for Our Uplands Piece originally written by George Dunn, TFA Chief Executive, for The Cumberland News and Westmorland Gazette, published on the 22 February 2019 The news ...

As we head closer to the 29th March and our scheduled departure from the EU, below are some facts about how the UK’s departure will affect agricultural businesses. We are encouraging farmers to urgently prepare their businesses for ...

In our latest blog post, TFA North East Regional Chairman, Stephen Wyrill writes: It seems a week can’t go by without farmers being villainised for not looking after the environment.  From over grazing, wrecking soil health and how ...

The TFA is supporting this year’s Mind Your Head campaign organised by leading farming charity Farm Safety Foundation to raise awareness and tackle the stigma of the growing issue of mental illness in farming. Recent research by the ...

This important initiative offers a simple means of recording the effect of any conservation schemes currently being initiated by farmers and gamekeepers on their land. All you have to do is spend about 30 minutes recording the species ...

The TFA have renewed its pledge to the Farm Safety Partnership (FSP) charter. The aim of the partnership is too reduce farm, work place fatal accidents by 50% by 2023. We aim to achieve this through; providing leadership to improve the ...

This is a reprint of an article written by George Dunn, TFA Chief Executive, for the Farmers Guardian’s online Brexit Hub in autumn 2018  By any objective assessment, the negotiations between the UK and the EU attempting to reach an ...

It is currently the question on many people’s lips at the moment – deal or no deal. But in either scenario the implications for the UK’s trading ability will no doubt change the face of our agricultural industry.  For livestock ...

In our latest blog post, Devon TFA member Mike Dart sets out a contingency plan for the sheep sector in the event of no deal in the UK’s Brexit negotiations with the EU.  In a hard Brexit scenario there is every possibility that ...