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Hershberger sentencing set
Sentencing for dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger is set for Thursday, June 13th in Sauk County, Wisconsin Circuit Court. While a jury acquitted Hershberger on three charges related to selling unpasteurized milk he was found guilty of violating a “hold” order placed on his products by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. He faces up to a year in jail and $10,000 fine.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says Hershberger is also scheduled to appear in the same court that day on a state motion that he be jailed for allegedly violating conditions of his bond prior to the three acquittals. A stipulation of his bond in January of 2012 was that he discontinue processing and selling dairy products without a license, he told a Madison newspaper last week that he continued to sell products after the judge’s order.
Hershberger was charged with selling unpasteurized milk from an unlicensed dairy farm and operating without a processors license and a retailer’s license. The state raided his farm in 2010 and placed a “hold” on all of the dairy products he had at the time. He continued to sell the products to members of a buyers club.
They need to just stop prosecuting and persecuting farmers for farming and selling their products. If someone wants to by the product and they are a share holder in the farm or the animals then the government has no business getting in the way. We are supposed to be living in a free society. This ongoing prosecution and persecution of people flys in the face of everything the Founding Fathers intended.