The Tenant Farmers Association is continuing to push ahead with its FBT10+ campaign for longer term Farm Business Tenancies.
The Tenant Farmers Association launched the campaign under the banner "FBT10+: Too short for too long", aimed at more than doubling the average length of term offered by landlords on Farm Business Tenancies.
The campaign was launched in January 2015 to coincide with the 20th anniversary year of the coming into force of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 which ushered in Farm Business Tenancies.
TFA Chief Executive George Dunn said: "We were really pleased with the traction gained through the campaign year.
"We certainly raised the level of debate and most people now accept the need for longer term tenancies although there is still some disagreement about how that should be achieved.
"However, no one has yet come forward with a better model than the changes the TFA has proposed to the taxation framework within which landlords make decisions about letting land."
"We were delighted that our campaign was the focus of a House of Commons debate in Westminster Hall last week led by the Conservative MP for Wealden, Nusrat Ghani.
"In all bar one of the speeches and interventions in the debate, including from DEFRA Minister George Eustice responding to the debate, there was support for the objectives of the TFA’s campaign.
"Not surprisingly, taxation was a major focus in the debate and it was disappointing that there was no Treasury representation on the Government benches who could have responded to the issues raised.
"The cross party and cross country support that we are receiving for our campaign indicates that the TFA is on the right tracks and we will continue to press ahead with our campaign," said Mr Dunn."
