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 ...

For healthy and sustainable food production it is necessary to have healthy and sustainably managed soil.   For healthy and sustainably managed soil, suitable quantities of organic matter are required.   For quantities of ...

Our thought provoking blogger, Fred Cactus considers who should be responsible for feeding the nation: Farmers – it is time you realise it is not your responsibility to feed the nation.  That responsibility sits with Government.  ...

I am a small bacterium, my life is one of toil I live with millions of my friends, deep down within the soil.   Now the job we’ve done for millennia, the profession in which we take part Is one of soil conditioning, we keep soil ...

The Tenant Livestock Farmer Tenant Livestock Farmers, Will by now be well aware, The payments that maintained their livestock Are being diverted elsewhere. The reason that this is happening Is the people in charge right now Don’t ...