{"id":80368,"date":"2026-07-28T03:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/farm-gates-smashed-and-crops-destroyed-by-gangs-hunting-hares\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T03:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:53:23","slug":"farm-gates-smashed-and-crops-destroyed-by-gangs-hunting-hares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/farm-gates-smashed-and-crops-destroyed-by-gangs-hunting-hares\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm gates smashed and crops destroyed by &#8216;gangs hunting hares&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a massive problem,&#8221; said Edwards, a beef and sheep farmer from Colwinston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re close to Cardiff, Bridgend, Swansea &#8211; there are good links to the motorway and A roads so people can travel here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To access his own fields, the 45-year-old now has to use a JCB to move giant logs he&#8217;s placed in front of the gates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s got to the stage now that if we don&#8217;t put a log like that in the gateway they force access. We&#8217;ve tried chains and padlocks but they get cut off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve had vehicles ram gates and smash [them] off their hinges, and then when they leave&#8230; we have animals out on the road&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once we get into the autumn and we&#8217;re planting for next year, they leave ruts in the ground and they&#8217;re damaging the crops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwylk005dg7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a massive problem,&#8221; said Edwards, a beef and sheep farmer from Colwinston. &#8220;We&#8217;re close to Cardiff, Bridgend, Swansea &#8211; there are good links to the motorway and A roads so people can travel here.&#8221; To access his own fields, the 45-year-old now has to use a JCB to move giant logs he&#8217;s placed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[9223,938,1735,8700,518,21277,1900,16759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80370,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80368\/revisions\/80370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}