Minette Batters and Helen Browning - My Farming Life

What a privilege to have two titans of agriculture, both women, both from Wiltshire, together on stage sharing their stories.Helen Browning OBE has farmed Eastbrook Farm at Bishopstone since taking over from her father in 1986, aged 24.

She is CEO of the Soil Association and has pioneered organic farming methods throughout her career.Baroness Minette Batters took on Barford Park Farm, near Salisbury, in 1998, despite her fathers warning that there was no future in farming.

She became the first female NFU president, serving from 2018 to 2024.

Last year, she published the Farming Profitability Review, calling for a National Plan for Farming.Brownings The Boys Team is an unflinchingly honest coming-of-age account that reveals the private face behind the public persona.Batters Harvest blends memoir with manifesto: having seen Brexit, Covid and international conflict push farms and food production to a state of crisis, who better to understand how British farming really works?The authors will be in conversation with Farmers Weekly deputy editor Abi Kay.