Minette Batters Baroness Minette Batters is a crossbench peer and a former NFU president. She runs a beef farm and rural business in Wiltshire. 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.