A rural crime wave in England and Wales has led to the use of private security patrols to protect crops.
Police rarely solve rural crimes and are not doing enough to fight organised crime, according to farmers.
The data shows that suspects are more likely to be charged for crimes in urban areas than in rural areas.
The Home Office plans to tackle rural crime.
Eveey Hunter's farm was devastated by crime last year.
She had to stop work for three weeks due to the cut out of all three of her tractor's gps components.
After leaving at one o'clock in the night, her brother told her that they wouldn't be doing farming today.
The harvest would have been done the next day.
Eveey says she discovered through her own detective work that more than 30 other tractor components were removed on the same night.
She believes farmers are being targeted by organised crime groups.
She says she doesn't want to be seen by these people and she drives her tractor at night. She says they are trying to feed the nation.
A forensics team wasn't sent until two days after Eveey reported the thefts, she said. She had to send the tractors away for repairs by the time they got there.
There are no charges for the thefts. The investigation was conducted by a different force, according to the police.
Eveey is not the only one. The rate of charged for crimes in rural areas was 6.89% in 2011. In urban areas, there were over three million charges handed out for over two million offenses.
The proportion of suspects being charged for crimes in towns and cities is higher than in the countryside.
According to Palmer, he has been the victim of 30 crimes in the last year, but he has not reported them to the police.
His fields were destroyed by joyriders recently. A man went to his farm with a gun.
He said that he never got the police here at all.
He says he spends tens of thousands of dollars on security.
He feels let down. There are a lot of people being caught for high value theft.
There was only one crime report from the farm in the last year, and it was thoroughly investigated. It could only investigate crimes that were reported to the force.
Mark Wild is the owner of a security company which installs security on farms.
I'm not able to keep up with demand. My phone is off the hook all the time. He says he's been asked to secure grain stores.
Criminals have always taken advantage of the isolated nature of the countryside but farmers are now facing organised crime with agricultural machinery a particular target.
"Thieves have been turning their focus onto smaller, high-value targets including farming, with demand from across the globe fueling the crime wave," says rural affairs specialist Rebecca Davidson.
Harvests can be delayed and some farmers can't work without the help of gps.
According to the Home Office, the rural and wildlife crime strategy provides a framework through which policing and its partners can work together to tackle the most prevalent threats which affect rural communities.
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