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2 MN farmers charged in $46M organic grain fraud scheme

Jan 16, 2023 at 10:29 AM CST

Two men from southern Minnesota’s Cottonwood County have been charged in a federal superseding indictment with conspiring to defraud grain purchasers out of more than $46 million by passing off chemically-treated corn and soybeans as organically grown.