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A bankruptcy trustee finds himself trying to navigate the Dealer Trust Act, a 2-year-old law that only recently has published regulations and has no cited case law or precedent on how to handle it. USDA has asserted the cases involving a bankrupt cattle operation in Kentucky and Texas are the first time the Dealer Trust Act has been used.
Rabo Agrifinance is accusing the business surrounding a Kentucky cattle producer who died in April and his two Texas feedyards of engaging in a fraud that drained its bank accounts and cleared out tens of thousands of cattle from the feedyards, leaving Rabo with roughly $50.6 million in unpaid loans. The operation's collapse may have affected dozens of other cattle producers as well.
Judge Allows Bank to Seek Documents Tied to Feedyards in Bankruptcy Case
Judge Allows Bank to Seek Documents Tied to Feedyards in Bankruptcy Case
The cattle industry is bracing for the fallout over an alleged ghost cattle marketing scheme. It involves several entities, McClain Farms, 7M Cattle Feeders, and McClain Feed Yard, all of which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. As many as 80,000 cattle may have been involved.