For those of you who have stumbled across this blog by accident and to those of you pointed here by the TFA website, my name is Greg Bliss and I am the National Chairman of the Tenant Farmers Association (TFA). I somehow manage to juggle, with varying degrees of success, running my own farm and the National Chairman’s role.

I am a third generation tenant of the Crown Estate and farm an arable farm on the edge of the Fens to the east of Peterborough. It covers 470 ha and we grow lots of root crops, run a small flock of sheep and some horses, although those belong to the wife and daughters. My other landlord is the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, with this part being in the Great Fen Project.

I joined the TFA back in 1991, became involved with the Eastern Regional Committee, where I became the Eastern Regional Chairman in 2003. I was elected the National Vice-Chairman in 2005 and took up my current post in March 2008.

Many people think that what they do or say doesn’t make a difference, however I have found that being with the TFA has made a difference. Not only in advising me on tenancy issues on my own farm, but also in my role as National Chairman I know that I am able to lobby Government on issues which affect tenant farmers.

When I’m not sitting on a tractor, or in the office filling out paperwork, or going round the country to various meetings and events with the TFA, I quite enjoy rugby, sailing and the odd glass of red wine.