STAFFANSTORP. Farmers have grown tired of constant thefts. – Skånskan.se

STAFFANSTORP. Farmers have grown tired of constant thefts.
Now they are demanding that both the police and insurance companies are taking vigorous action and do something about the problem.

– We believe that they ignore us, says Ola Nilsson, spokesman for members of Torna County District Agricultural club.

The problem with theft is huge, he says.
– There are several diesel thefts. Members have gotten rid of machines, machine parts, tools and a large plow. We speculate that there may be gangs running around and steal, but we obviously can not substantiate.
For something to happen has Torna County District Agricultural club in collaboration with Eslövs agricultural club and LRF Youth invited the police, insurance companies, politicians, members and other interested parties to a meeting in Staffordshire on Thursday.

– Something must done this affects many farmers with large costs that result, not to mention everything else it brings with it, says Ola Nilsson.
On Nygård outside Kyrkheddinge in Staffanstorps municipality Mats Olsson received the fuel cap on his diggers broken up 13-fold in 2014.
– One time it happened three times in a week. Every time new cover costs 1600 dollars and the deductible is 4400 SEK. Just in excess, it was 57,200 crowns a year. Not to mention all the work and job delays it brings with it.
– My excavator is often left out in the fields during the night because I include working to clean up and cut along rivers and streams. I usually leave the tank empty but it does not know the thieves as they break up the cover anyway. Now I have stopped reading the tank lid.
– In the worst case, drill the hole in the tank. A new cost 65 000 and has six weeks of delivery.

But it’s not only diesel that is attractive to steal. Several farmers have had thefts on their farms and it has also affected Mats Olsson and Ingrid Jonsson at Nygård.
– There were thieves in the yard one day when I and the neighbor came home. We tried to stop them but they fled in a car. The neighbor followed but lost them in Molle Berga.

The time was stolen including large electric motors and batteries. Another farmer got rid of all its large reversible plow a night, says Ola Nilsson.
– He had put it in the barn at night and in the morning it was gone.
– The big plow had been dismantled part of part, been running the wheelbarrow down to the road where it loaded on light truck and driven away. They certainly had cut half the night with the job and the owner probably lost at least 100 000 on the plow. Insurance companies have a tendency to underestimate the compensation.
Now, says the farmers that the situation is almost desperate.
– We want to know what we can and what we can do. We can not put up high-voltage fence and the rules of surveillance cameras are strict. So what can we do?

– We want answers of police, politicians and others.
The meeting on Thursday will begin at 18 and held at Staffanstorps machine companies Soderberg & amp; Haak.