Farmers protest at Carmarthen Tesco over falling lamb prices

Farmers were protesting about the price paid by the supermarket for lamb

About 100 farmers have held a protest at a supermarket in Carmarthenshire over falling lamb prices.

The demonstration at Tesco in Carmarthen was also in protest at the amount of meat imported from outside the UK being sold at the store.

Farmers claim they are being paid the same price for their lamb as 35 years ago.

Tesco said it is the biggest buyer of British lamb but does source meat from New Zealand.

Farmer Gary Howells said: "All the lambs (this year) have been £20 a head down on what they have been in the last couple of years. We can't go on like that when the price of everything else is going up.

"The older farmers here tonight have been telling me back in the 1980s they were selling lambs for what we are getting now. We just can't carry on like this, can we?"

Farmers were speaking out against the amount of meat imported from New Zealand

A Tesco spokesperson said: "We are aware of an incident which took place at our Carmarthen store this evening. There was a limited amount of disruption and the store continued to serve customers following the incident.

"We recognise the quality of British lamb and are proud to be the biggest buyer of it. To ensure our customers have consistently high quality and affordable lamb all year round, we do source from both the UK and New Zealand."