[3][1] The union held a major conference in Bologna in 1913, which decided to campaign for agricultural workers to have a clearer employer-employee relationship with farmers.
[1] The union was banned by the fascist government in 1926, but it was revived at the end of World War II, and affiliated to the new Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL).
CGIL decided that Federterra should be split into unions tied to workers' relationship with their employer, so in 1947, the National Federation of Sharecroppers (Federmezzadri) was split out, then in 1948, the remaining members transferred to the new National Federation of Italian Agricultural Labourers and Employees (Federbraccianti).
Now an umbrella organisation, it brought together Federmezzadri and Federbraccianti with smaller organisations not affiliated to CGIL: the National Association of Direct Growers, and later, also the Association of Southern Peasants, the Union of Sicilian Farmers, the Union of Sardinian Peasants and Shepherds and the National Coordination Committee.
[1] Federterra was dissolved in 1977, when CGIL decided to focus on representing employees, the other organisations forming Confcoltivatori.