DECORAH, Iowa – A Decorah man has denied stealing corn and soybeans worth tens of thousands of dollars from Winneshiek County farmers. Kurt Patrick Krauskopf, age 48, pleaded not guilty. A judge set trial for March. A criminal complaint accuses Krauskopf of tapping farmers’ grain bins and driving the crops to elevators, and selling the as if they were his own. The haul, according to the complaint, totaled 24-1/2 semi-loads of grain, netting $175,000. Krauskopf also is accused of chopping about $8,500 worth of corn for silage on roughly eight acres belonging to another farmer.
