Ask yourself: What if someone wanted to harm my farm — what would they target, what could they do and how easily could they do it? In talking about potential criminal activity on the farm, those were the questions posed by Peggy Kirk Hall, an Ohio State University associate professor in Agricultural and Resource Law, and also director of the OSU Extension Agricultural and Resource Law Program.
In March, an Ohio man was sentenced to one year in prison, restitution and five years of probation after stealing almost $95,000 in harvested grain, according to court sentencing records in Ashland County.
The defendant took his employer’s gravity wagon full of grain and sold it to a local co-op in Ashland County under false pretenses. After the theft was discovered, the defendant fled from Ohio, eventually having to be extradited from New Mexico.