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.
