United States v. Collingwood Grain, Inc.

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves competing security interests in a foreclosure action. The debtors, Rodney P. and Angela L. Ardery, gave both the United States and Collingwood Grain, Inc. a security interest in growing crops on farm land they leased in Kansas. At issue is the sufficiency of the land description in the Collingwood financing statement, which was filed first.

The tract was listed in the Collingwood financing statement as follows:

% Interest 80% Range County State 31 Finney Kansas No. Acres Section Township 160 33 26

The United States, which filed later a financing…