Brent Harrod v. Dan Glickman

HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

The appellants are vegetable farmers in Arkansas who received disaster relief payments from the United States Department of Agriculture (the agency) for crop damage in 1989 due to weather-related conditions. The agency demanded a refund of these payments after learning that the appellants’ crop damage was also due in part to the farmers’ application of a chemical which they later learned had been defective. ■ The farmers unsuccessfully appealed the administrative decision requiring them to reimburse the government, and they ultimately sought judicial review in federal…