State Police are looking for a new $40,000 tractor that was stolen early this morning from a sales lot in Union.

The 2011 Kubota model L45, with a bucket loader on the front and a backhoe on the rear, was stolen from Union Farm Equipment on Route 17 about 2 a.m.

Trooper Jeremiah Wesbrock said a lone male jumped the fence, started the tractor and then used the tractor’s bucket to ram through the front gate where it was then driven into a ramp truck.

A motorist on Route 17 later reported seeing the ramp truck with the tractor on it driving toward Augusta about 2:20 a.m. The theft was discovered Monday morning when workers arrived at the dealership.

Wesbrock said there could be some scrapes on the bucket from ramming the gate.

Anyone with information of the theft is asked to call state police in Augusta at 800-452-4664.