Farmers to stage national supermarket protest later this week
27th January 2026
British farmers are set to launch a nationwide protest this Thursday, 29th January, at supermarkets across the country.
Participants will gather at Tesco stores in different locations every Thursday evening between 4pm and 10pm. They will bring banners, with a small number of tractors optionally present.
Farmers will distribute flyers at store exits. On the launch day of the protest, a letter will be sent to Tesco and 10 other major supermarkets by email and registered post.
Organisers said the main aim is to “keep the press boiling” after every Thursday action through to 1 March, while they await responses from the retailers.
“UK family farmers are at breaking point. This IHT campaign challenges major supermarkets and the government to end policies and practices that are destroying family farms, food security, and rural livelihoods.
“Family farmers feed this country. It’s time they were paid properly, treated with dignity, and protected for the future,” they added.
The letter
A formal letter from Farmers For Action, supported by farm organisations across the UK and beyond, demanding clear yes/no responses to the campaign’s requests.
The FFA is calling on retailers to use their influence to lobby the government on four critical issues: ending the “crippling” farm inheritance tax; introducing a UK-wide Farm Welfare Bill to ensure family farmers are paid at least the true, inflation-linked cost of production plus a fair margin; ending the practice of “food swapping” (for example, importing lamb when the UK is self-sufficient), which the FFA argues accelerates climate change for corporate profit; and banning the import and retail of “substandard” food — specifically citing Brazilian beef — alongside an end to misleading food labelling.
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