A Wisconsin man who formerly farmed in Garnavillo was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution to a federal agency this week after he pleaded guilty earlier this year to converting grain that had been mortgaged to the government.

Daryl Ihde, 54, of Glen Haven, Wis., admitted at the plea hearing that he wrongfully sold over $38,000 in corn that was mortgaged to the Commodity Credit Corporation as collateral on a U.S. Department of Agriculture loan.

Commodity support operations are handled primarily through loan, purchase and payment programs. Farmers may receive basic nonrecourse commodity loans on most commodities at a designated rate per unit by pledging and storing a quantity of a commodity as collateral. If a producer does not redeem the commodity by loan repayment time, Commodity Credit Corporation takes title and possession of the commodity that was pledged as collateral for the loan.

Ihde was given five months in jail and ordered to make $38,517 in restitution to the USDA. Following his prison term, he will also serve five months of home detention and an additional three-year term of supervised release.