Two tractors and a cultivator worth £68,500 which were stolen from a Moulton farm last weekend have quickly been recovered.
The John Deere 6830 models – one of which was still coupled to a cultivator – were brazenly driven away from bulb growers F Dring and Sons in High Road between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Managing director Richard Barlow got a phone call from police at 6pm on Tuesday to say they had been found.
He said: “I’m pleasantly surprised that they have been recovered.”
The Voice is not publishing details of how and where they were found while an investigation by detectives continues.
Prior to being stolen, the tractors – worth £35,000 and £25,000 – were locked, said Mr Barlow. One had been left parked in an open shed and the other in the yard.
His wife heard a noise at about 3am on Sunday, which they now believe to have been the thieves at work.
A trailer was uncoupled from one of the tractors. The other still had a flat-lift three leg cultivator – worth £8,500 – attached when it was stolen.
“They must have been on site some time,” said Mr Barlow.
Both vehicles were marked with SmartWater and had data tags with details of their owner.
The cultivator has also been found but was not with the tractors.
Anyone with information about the theft is asked to call 101 (incident 115 of March 22).
