Farmers For Action conclude their six counties in six weeks series of protests around Northern Ireland

According to FFA the ‘Enniskillen protest was marked by good weather and a really good reception from Tesco shoppers, willing to stop at the exit and take a flyer’ whilst a ‘convoy of tractors, slurry equipment and trailers finished the night off by passing Tesco’s

front door in slow procession’.

William Taylor, FFA, said: “The letters sent to 11 of the largest UK supermarkets including Tesco by Farmers For Action ask four very reasonable questions to be answered with a simple yes or no, but have resulted in five fudge replies to date, which count as no answers”.

The four questions being asked to supermarkets are:

• will the supermarket in question agree to lobby Government to end the Inheritance Tax,
• will the supermarket in question agree to lobby Government to put in place a UK-wide Farm Welfare Bill to return farmers the minimum of the cost of production plus a margin inflation linked for their produce;
• will the supermarket in question agree to lobby Government to end food swaps on the high seas and imports of inferior produce;
• will the supermarket in question agree to lobby Government to end mislabelling.

Mr Taylor added: “These questions are the least that family farmers across the UK expect yes answers to, even

more importantly consumers across the UK expect yes answers to the same questions to

ensure the food on their tables for them and their children going forward.

"If the UK finished up in a war situation and the food related ships stop sailing, the UK could only feed 48% of the population!

"This should be a huge wake-up call for a Government that seems to be asleep at the wheel, currently on defence and is most

definitely asleep at the wheel on food self-sufficiency and therefore food security while farmers continue to leave the industry at the rate of noughts!”

The statement from FFA adds that the ‘11 largest UK supermarkets have been given to the 14th March 2026 to reply’.