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Thornton’s family has been farming in the same valley 20 minutes south of the Canadian border for nearly a century, and their yearly Honeycrisp crop is a painstaking ordeal.

Behind the con, investigators say, is a black market connecting foreign criminal networks to server farms that blast scam texts to victims.

His accomplices allegedly procured millions of mobile phone numbers and set up "phone farms" to conduct call centre scams, according to the court documents, dated 8 October.

A TV advert by Red Tractor, the UK's biggest certifier of farm products on supermarket shelves, has been banned for exaggerating the scheme's environmental benefits and misleading the public.

“I’m a student. I work on an agricultural farm.”