Valuable farming equipment weighing two tonnes has been stolen from land near Leeds.
North Yorkshire Police are trying to track down the Watkins machine, which is used for working farmland and is worth around £18,000, after it was taken from land in South Milford between Thursday June 9 and Tuesday June 14.
Every year tractors worth millions of pounds are stolen from British farms.
Police say many are stolen to order and shipped abroad sometimes ending up as far away as Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the BBC.
With large arable farms, eastern England is a particular crime hotspot, accounting for more than a fifth of all such thefts in the UK last year.
Anyone with any information that may aid North Yorkshire Police is urged to call 101, quoting log number 12160105045, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
