Rural crime

Cases of rural crime show the immense emotional, financial and environmental burden placed on British farmers and growers

Writing from his family’s farm in Cumbria, Farmers Guardian online content specialist Tom Ryder reflects on the reality of rural crime, after thieves targeted both his family farm and, recently, Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat

Through the Rural Crime Partnership, the Young Farmers’ Clubs of Ulster work to raise awareness of practical steps to keep communities and businesses safe

National Rural Crime Action Week runs from September 6 to 11

The television star has told the thieves to ‘put them back’ after discovering the sheep missing

Items including a JCB dumper truck, horseboxes a generator and a trailer were recovered

The site was larger than the pitch at Wembley Stadium including tonnes of commercial and household waste

Two farms just miles apart reported barn fires in the early hours of Sunday (August 22) morning

A barn housing livestock caught fire on Sunday (August 23) in North Cornwall

Farmers should not be left paying to clear waste dumped on their land, the CLA said, as the Prime Minister announced a crackdown on organised waste crime