Tenant Farming Commissioner

Attending the NFU’s Tenant conference, Alan Laidlaw, the new tenant farming commissioner, urged collaboration and promised to give tenants a stronger voice during a period of major change

Farmers, policymakers and industry leaders joined together to discuss how to make the tenanted sector a powerhouse of growth and productivity

Tenant Farmers Association chief executive George Dunn writes on the appointment of Alan Laidlaw as England's first Tenant Farming Commissioner

Former RHASS head Alan Laidlaw is welcomed as England's first ever Tenant Farming Commissioner

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

Chief reporter Rachael Brown questions what is being done to protect the agricultural tenanted sector to ensure it thrives, for both tenants and landlords going forward

With tenant farmers feeling overlooked in the discussion about the impact of Inheritance Tax changes on their farms, chief reporter Rachael Brown takes a look at the concerns coming from the sector

NFU vice president and tenant farmer Rachel Hallos said the tenanted sector was in a ‘very precarious' position in the current climate, and that the Tenant Farming Commissioner must be put in position imminently

Rob Black said often tenants make assumptions of their landlords and vice versa. He said there was a need for more ‘genuine conversations’ encouraging landlords and tenants to ‘sit down and talk to each other’

Mr Reed was questioned how he will protect tenant farmers, who are threatened by eviction from their holdings, due to landlords being concerned about the Inheritance Tax bill they will face