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24 September 2020

Wisconsin farmer lowballs corn, soybean crops in $228,525 scheme

John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Mark E. Johnson, 50, a farmer in...

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24 September 2020

Mo. farmer allegedly steals nearly $800,000 in federal crop payments

A northwest Missouri farmer was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday for a nearly $800,000 fraud scheme to receive federal...

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24 September 2020

Maharashtra govt begins probe into mega crop insurance fraud

The state government has come across major irregularities in insurance claims made by farmers in 2015. Most of these anomalies were...

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24 September 2020

Reducing crop insurance fraud, improving crop yields cited as benefits

Farmers can expect to see numerous benefits in several aspects of their operations through the use of drones, a new study...

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24 September 2020

Farmer pleads guilty to insurance fraud charges

A Waushara County farmer was convicted of crop insurance fraud. Jeffrey Lewke misrepresented how many times he irrigated a corn field...

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24 September 2020

Government to scale down insurance cover for crop insurance fraud

Many farmers have found an ingenious but improper way to maximise their cash flow -by taking loans and insurance cover for...

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24 September 2020

Farmer in Missouri sentenced to two years in prison for crop fraud

Federal Judge Stephen Limbaugh sentenced a Parma, Missouri, man to two years in prison for crop insurance fraud, theft of government...

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24 September 2020

Two farmers in Kentucky plead guilty to $1.1M crop insurance scam

Two south-central Kentucky farmers have pleaded guilty to crop insurance fraud. The U.S. attorney’s office says 53-year-old David Manion and 48-year-old...

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24 September 2020

Yost said he does not have authority to audit crop insurance

One day after being grilled at a congressional hearing on why he had audited the food stamp program as opposed to...

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24 September 2020

Farmer in Missouri pled guilty to $250,000 crop insurance scam

Bobby David Lowrey pled guilty to multiple charges involving federal crop insurance fraud, theft of government property and wire fraud. According...

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