Some producers have lost tens of thousands of dollars to a rising tide of financial fraud, one expert warns, and he wants farmers and agribusiness to protect themselves.

“It’s unbelievable the amount of cases that have come through our organization in the last year and a half,” said Jonathan Neutens, head of agriculture at ATB Financial and one of the speakers at the CrossRoads Crop Conference in Calgary earlier this year. “I don’t know what the percentage would be, but it’s large.”

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