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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

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

Farmer says deliberate incidents pose a threat to humans, animals and livelihoods

Essex grower says police need more powers to address increasingly violent incidents

Why are the victims of fly-tipping the ones 'punished for the crime'?

NFU and House of Lords join call for change as organised crime gangs target countryside

Failure by police, Environment Agency and wider government all named and shamed following inquiry

Joint police effort sees seven men sentenced for more than 25 years after multiple farm machinery thefts

The food crime team discovered 1.9 tonnes of animal by-products at an illegal meat cutting plant in Southwark

Dashcam footage caught tractor veering across traffic before mounting central reservation