ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Jeffers farmer pleaded guilty to a $19.6 million fraud in which he labeled non-certified crops as organic In a plea deal, James Clayton Wolf., 66, agreed to forfeit all the ill-gotten proceeds. The federal charge was wire fraud. Wolf’s Cottonwood County farm was indeed certified organic but he bought “conventionally farmed” grains from a supplier and resold them as organic. A case against a second man accused as a co-conspirator, Adam Clifford Olson, 46, of Windom, a farm consultant and seed salesman, is moving separately through the courts.
