Minette Batters honoured with peerage for services to farming

Minette Batters served as head of the NFU between 2018 to 2024
Minette Batters served as head of the NFU between 2018 to 2024

Minette Batters, the former president of the NFU, has been honoured with a peerage for services to the union and the wider farming industry.

Mrs Batters, who served as head of the NFU between 2018 to 2024, has been made a baroness following the dissolution of parliament.

The Wiltshire mixed farmer was the first female president of the organisation, serving three two-year terms.

Before becoming the union's first female president, she served as the NFU's deputy president from 2014 to 2018.

Mrs Batters will sit as a non-party political, cross-bench peer once sworn in at the House of Lords.

The former Defra Secretary Dr Therese Coffey, who was in the post between 2023-2023, has been awarded a damehood.