The Trump administration dropped criminal charges against Charles and Heather Maude, a South Dakota family who has a small cattle and hog operation. This family endured politically motivated prosecution waged by the Biden administration over 50 acres of federal land. “The Maudes are not criminals,” said Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins. “They’ve worked that land since the early 1990s, and something that should have been a minor civil dispute that was over and done quickly turned into an overzealous criminal prosecution on a hardworking family that was close to losing their home, children, and livelihood.” A politically motivated witch hunt was launched against the Maude family over a fence line and planting dispute with a small family farm that has cultivated land near federal grasslands since the early 1900s. “No family farmers or ranchers should have to go through everything that the Maude family did,” says NCBA President Buck Wehrbein.
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