On Tuesday 23 June, members of the Farming APPG welcomed Baroness Minette Batters as a guest speaker.

Baroness Batters discussed the Farming Roadmap and the government's responsive to her Farming Profitability Review. She offered introductory remarks on her hopes for the uptake of the recommendations, including the role of the Farming and Food Partnership Board, combining private and public funding to deliver food and environmental goods, and the promotion of British-grown food at home and abroad.

Topics raised by group members in the discussion included: WTO rules and the incentivisation of pulse production as a food crop; join up of policy across government around farming and food; the prominence of food and farming within Defra; the SPS agreement negotiations with the EU; country of origin labelling in the out of home sector and the possibility of a voluntary code of practice similar to the grocery sector; and how the UK could draw lessons from countries like New Zealand in supporting exports.