Farm leaders would be best employed sitting down with the Minister to devise strategies to meet the robust challenges ahead. The most meaningful way to show a united front to Commissioner Fischler is as committed participants in a new partnership programme. We have the most successful Minister for Agriculture and Food ever to negotiate at EU level on behalf of farmers. Let us give him our staunchest support in the major challenges he now faces – the mid-term review of the CAP and the WTO negotiations. We have a great Minister – nobody knows better the ropes of Europe or the WTO negotiations.