In partnership with Farm & Forest — trusted support for UK farms, woodlands & rural businesses. KYNEKT® adds verified proof of ownership and audit-ready records that help protect your machinery and speed up insurance claims.
Tractors, quads, ATVs, implements, generators and tools — spread across fields, yards and remote sites. KYNEKT® brings verified proof of ownership, a complete equipment inventory, live GPS tracking with remote disable, and a trusted marketplace into one app.
The overall cost of rural crime is falling as the industry fights back — but thieves are concentrating on the equipment farms can least afford to lose. In 2025, theft of agricultural vehicles, quads and livestock all rose, with organised gangs targeting high-value, portable kit.
agricultural vehicle theft claims in 2025 — tractors, telehandlers and trailers.
NFU Mutual’s agents see the impact of rural crime on farming families first-hand.
believe rural crime is disrupting farming in their area.
know farmers who have been repeat victims of rural crime.
say rural crime is negatively affecting farmers’ mental wellbeing.
Figures: NFU Mutual Rural Crime Report 2025 (published June 2025). Agricultural vehicle, quad/ATV and livestock theft costs are estimated claims figures for 2025; percentages are year-on-year changes. NFU Mutual is not affiliated with KYNEKT®.
Quads and ATVs are stolen because they are easy to move, expensive to replace and essential to daily work. GPS guidance units, power tools and even whole machines are lifted to order by organised groups and moved on fast. Once kit leaves the yard, recovery without a verified record is slow and often impossible.
The new standard. The Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023 is introducing forensic marking and database registration for new ATVs and GPS units. KYNEKT® is built around exactly this principle — a verified identity and recorded owner for every asset — so you’re ahead of the requirement, not chasing it.
Whatever you own — tractors, quads, trailers, implements and tools — lives in one place. Out in the field the app does it all from your pocket. Back at the farm office, larger operations and estates run the whole show from a browser, no download required.
Manage your whole fleet, staff and certificates on a big screen — ideal for estates, contractors and hire desks.
Locate, disable and report from your phone the moment something moves. No waiting, no panic.
Everything syncs live — what you log in the field appears instantly in the office.
.Discreet GPS tracking with live location, movement alerts and one-tap remote disable. K | TRAK® units enter sleep mode to avoid signal sweeping and are designed to evade common scanners — fitted out of sight by an approved installer.
Every K | TRAK® includes a £9.99 voltage adaptor, added automatically at checkout. Order and manage everything on the KYNEKT® website.
Join the farmers and trades using KYNEKT® to log, protect and recover their machinery, tools and equipment. Download the app free and set up your first verified record in minutes.
It is significant and highly organised. NFU Mutual’s 2025 Rural Crime Report put the cost of rural crime at an estimated £41.5 million in 2025. The overall figure has fallen for two years thanks to better policing and equipment marking — but several categories went the other way: agricultural-vehicle theft rose 18% (to roughly £8.3m), quad bike and ATV theft jumped 31% (to about £3.5m) and livestock theft climbed close to a third (to around £4.5m). In the Republic of Ireland the trend is sharper, with livestock-theft incidents and tractor thefts both rising in 2025.
The targets are valuable, portable, hard to identify once moved, and easy to sell on: GPS guidance units, quad bikes / ATVs / side-by-sides, tractors, telehandlers and excavators, livestock, and hand and power tools such as chainsaws. On remote forestry sites, equipment left out overnight is especially exposed.
High machinery values, an open second-hand market, and strong export demand. Recovery firms have traced stolen Irish farm machinery to Belarus, Poland and Lithuania, and as far as parts of Africa and the UAE. Supply-chain shortages and the war in Ukraine have been cited as widening the criminal market. Gangs increasingly work to order — watching a yard, then taking exactly what they came for.
Yes. The cost of stolen GPS units fell around 80% after farmers marked and secured them — proof that prevention works — but police intelligence flagged a fresh spike in GPS thefts in early 2026. The threat moved; it did not disappear.
Be able to prove you own it. Keep a record of every significant item — make, model, serial number, photographs and documents. It is the step the IFA and An Garda Síochána lead their advice with, because it speeds up police reports, supports insurance claims, and makes recovered kit returnable to the right owner.
With a verified ownership record you can show in seconds — to police, an insurer, or a buyer. A digital ID and ownership ‘passport’ ties the item to you, so an anonymous machine becomes a provable one.
Tracking technology lets you and recovery teams follow a stolen machine, set a geo-fence around the yard, and get an alert the moment something leaves. Remote disable can stop the kit being used at all. The golden rule from recovery firms: pursue at a safe distance and let the police intervene — never confront thieves yourself.
Buy and sell through a marketplace that verifies ownership on both sides. A second-hand market that checks provenance is one where stolen equipment cannot be quietly laundered — protecting honest buyers and starving the gangs of their exit.
“Lock up and light up”: lock gates and doors, fit motion-sensor lighting and CCTV that can alert your phone, and never leave keys in a tractor, quad or telehandler. Forensically mark high-value kit and register the details — a machine that is obviously marked and traceable is one thieves would rather leave alone.
One app to prove what you own, protect it, track it, and trade it safely. It brings together four tools — KYNEKT.ID, K|INVENTORY, K|TRAK and TOOLTRADE — under one simple idea: Prove it. Protect it. Track it. Trade it.
It is your verified ID and ownership passport for you and your kit, so anyone who needs to — police, insurer or buyer — can see who an item belongs to. The aim is to prove ownership in seconds.
It is a digital logbook for the machinery, quads and tools your farm or forestry business runs on — serial numbers, photographs and documents, all in one place and ready in a tap. It is exactly the record the IFA and Gardáí tell you to keep.
Live tracking with remote disable. Locate high-value kit, set a geo-fence around the yard, get an alert when something moves, and lock it down remotely. It speeds up recovery and makes a machine far less useful to a thief.
It is a marketplace for buying and selling verified kit, with proof of ownership on both sides — so your sale is trusted and stolen equipment cannot be passed off as clean.
Yes. Chainsaws, ATVs, winches, chippers and timber-handling equipment are all high-value, portable and often used on remote sites — the situations where recording, marking and tracking matter most. The same prove / record / track / trade tools apply, and the live-tracking and geo-fence features are particularly useful away from the main yard.
Yes — KYNEKT is available on iOS and Android. Create an account, add your first machine in minutes, and you have a provable record from day one. You can create an account or download the app to begin.
There is a free way to get started, with paid Pro features for businesses that need more. For current plans and pricing, see kynekt.id.
KYNEKT is independently assessed and accredited — including IASME Cyber Assurance (Levels One and Two), Secured by Design (the official police security initiative), OWASP, a SecureApp assessment by Secarma, and ICO registration. Security and data protection are built in, not bolted on.
Farm & Forest and KYNEKT have partnered to bring verified proof of ownership and audit-ready records to UK farms, woodlands and rural businesses — helping protect machinery and tools and speed up insurance claims if the worst happens.
