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As we drive through Gloucestershire's countryside we pass, or get stuck behind, many a trundling tractor, but I didn't realise just how many of our farmers' tractors are going missing, and that they could be heading as far away as Iraq and Australia.

The National Farmers Union estimate there's at least one case a fortnight here in the County, so on Wednesday's show, Roy Limbrick, who runs a beef and cereals farm in Sherbourne, asked us all to keep an eye out for unusual activity around Gloucestershire farms. Roy and his neighbours had their tractors stolen over the last Bank Holiday, so now during a busy time in the agricultural calendar, he's without a vehicle and waiting for his insurance company to pay up.

Apparently these vehicles can be worth up to Β£100,000 and the trade which started with diggers in cities has spread to farms. Are you a farmer who's been hit by these thieves - tell me your story?