A Farmer’s Fraud

A brother, trustee of his dad’s estate and farming business, had felt slighted by his siblings. As trustee, he was able to disguise certain grain sales from his dad’s farm as coming from his own farming operations. He then kept the proceeds of the stolen grain for himself. The key to breaking the case was analyzing farm yields. Farmers like to talk about crop yields and this farmer’s yield increases were too much to believe. The case is still pending in court and likely the farmer will be criminally charged.