A truck prepares to leave the Hansen-Mueller storage facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota, on Dec. 5, 2025. Hansen-Mueller has field for bankruptcy with some North Dakota farmers still owed money. (Photo by Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)
Some North Dakota farmers are owed money after a large bankruptcy filing by a Nebraska-based grain dealer.
The North Dakota Department of Agriculture says farmers in the state are owed more than $900,000 by the Hansen-Mueller Co.
The bankruptcy affects creditors in multiple states, including South Dakota and Minnesota. Creditors also include a trucking company in North Dakota.
David Barrett is a Bismarck ag law attorney with clients that include some of the North Dakota farmers who will be filing claims.
He has clients in other states, too, and has

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