Fly-tippers have been condemned by police after huge piles of rubbish and tree branches were dumped in roads and entrances to fields.
The force says farmers are currently doing their best to feed the nation amid the coronavirus pandemic, and officers operating in rural Nottinghamshire expressed anger at those hindering their vital work.
Corrugated metal, plastics and other potentially dangerous items were dumped near a gate leading to a field in the county on or before Saturday, April 25, while heaps of cut conifer trees were dumped in the middle of a lane.
Speaking of the senseless act, Nottinghamshire Rural Police said: "In these unprecedented times our farmers up and down the country continue to help feed the nation.
"So why do some of us continue to place obstacles in their way."
There have been calls for recycling centres to reopen in the county following what has been described as the "worst ever incident" of fly-tipping near Brierley Forest Park in Huthwaite on April 16.
Nottinghamshire County Council closed its recycling centres, as well as numerous other local authorities across the county, when the country went into lockdown on March 23.
Some councils across the UK have launched a review into whether recycling centres should be reopened during the lockdown, but Nottinghamshire County Council says it will only reopen its 12 sites when the Government permits it.
