Minette Batters

Minette Batters: 'I don’t believe this Government set out to wipe out the family farm. Yet it will be the consequence'

Minette Batters — a farmer, former NFU President and a Baroness sitting in the House of Lords — has a harsh warning for Keir Starmer's government.

Minette Batters: 'There are serious questions to be asked as to whether the advice given to ministers is correct'

The former NFU President and crossbench peer worries about the effects of the latest budget, and asks why we can't test whether farmers are actually farming.

Minette Batters: Happiness is in the little things

The cross-bench peer and former NFU president uses some down time to reflect on the big questions, and prepares for a charity bike ride in Africa.

'It was Labour that ushered in chemical-driven agriculture: it must be Labour that puts that legacy to rights'

The countryside is supposed to be a mess. It's time to farm alongside nature, rather than against it, says Agromenes.

Minette Batters: The quest for the holy triumvirate

Minette Batters: The Peppering Project is a 'blueprint for delivering food and Nature security across the country in a way that rewilding on its own never will'

The ex-NFU president reflects on a recent visit to the pioneering nature-recovery project being undertaken by the Duke of Norfolk in West Sussex.

Minette Batters: We need to trade on a level playing field

After six years leading Britain's largest farming union, Minette Batters talks life after the NFU and why MPs of all parties need to take farming more seriously.