DOJ: Farmers' crop failures weren't a case of bad luck

Father, son accused of defrauding government programs

James and Levi Garrett were having a bad run.

In 2017, the Sully County farmers lost a soybean crop to drought.

In 2018, their sunflowers were flattened in a freak hailstorm.

The next year, their corn crop was lost.

And in 2020, their sunflowers froze.

Lucky for them, they had crop insurance.

Then came the Covid pandemic.

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