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A federal judge approved a Beadle County land sale by Glenn Richard Jungemann, whose name and Huron mailing address match county records for the company that holds Dakota Natural Solutions’ Wessington property. The cannabis grower’s state registrations are still listed. The state has a tax lien against its cultivation company, and a lawsuit filed by the lab that is now South Dakota’s only registered testing establishment has no public resolution.

By Jason Karimi, Publisher

On May 20, 2026, a federal bankruptcy judge in Sioux Falls approved a motion by Glenn Richard Jungemann to sell “Real Property located in Beadle County, SD Free and Clear of Liens.”¹ Three weeks later, Beadle County’s property records show a warranty deed for 136.35 acres of farmland in Allen Township, near Wolsey, with a recorded price of $945,000.²

The debtor’s name matches that of the man news outlets have identified as the owner and CEO of Dakota Natural Solutions, the Wessington medical cannabis cultivator and manufacturer known as DNS.³,⁴ In 2022, Beadle County commissioners heard from a representative of “Glenn Jungemann, DBA Dakota Natural Solutions AKA DNS” about an indoor cannabis grow.⁵ County records add an address link. Beadle County’s parcel data lists “Glenn Richard Jungemann” and DNS Holdings LLC, the owner of record of several parcels in Wessington, at the same Huron mailing address.⁶

WeedPress has not seen a court filing or a state record that names the debtor as an owner of DNS. The bankruptcy petition and schedules would list his business interests, but they are behind the federal courts’ PACER paywall and are not on the free RECAP archive. This story therefore reports what each record shows. It does not treat Jungemann’s personal bankruptcy as a bankruptcy of DNS. No DNS company is a debtor in the case.

What the court approved

Jungemann filed a voluntary Chapter 12 petition on October 27, 2025.⁷ Chapter 12 is the bankruptcy chapter for family farmers and fishermen with regular annual income. It lets them keep operating while they repay creditors under a court-approved plan.⁸ Farm Credit Services of America, a lender, was the most active creditor. Over the winter it obtained court orders for document production and an examination of Jungemann, and gave notice of subpoenas to livestock auction markets, grain buyers, a farm cooperative and several individuals. On February 23, 2026, it moved to dismiss the case. It withdrew that motion on May 28.⁹

The plan drew nine objections from six parties: Farm Credit, Dakotaland Federal Credit Union, the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Trustee and the Chapter 12 trustee.¹⁰ The objections themselves are not public on RECAP.

On April 28, Jungemann asked to hire American Legacy Land Company as his real estate agent, and the court approved it on May 6. On April 29, he filed the sale motion. Farm Credit objected on May 5. The same day, it filed a motion to approve a stipulation “RE: Sale of Collateral, Application of Sale Proceeds, and Other Matters.” The judge approved both the stipulation and the sale on May 20.¹¹ The docket shows one sale motion and one sale order, not two separate sales. Jungemann filed the required report of sale on July 2, after the clerk sent a reminder.¹²,¹³

A sale “free and clear” under the Bankruptcy Code lets a buyer take property without the seller’s liens, once the court finds the statute’s conditions are met.¹⁴ An order approving a sale permits the sale. It does not itself say who bought the property or for how much. Those details are in the motion and the report of sale, and WeedPress has not purchased either document.

The county records fill in part of that picture, with a caveat. They show a warranty deed dated June 10, 2026 and filed June 12. The deed covers the northeast quarter of Section 26, Township 112 North, Range 64 West, less a 23.65-acre lot. The 136.35 acres are now listed to a family trust, with a sale price of $945,000. The excluded lot is still listed under Glenn Richard Jungemann’s name.¹⁵ The county data does not name the seller, and WeedPress has not matched the parcel to the court’s order. The location in Beadle County and the timing are consistent with the approved sale. The county classifies the parcel as agricultural land. Nothing in the records WeedPress reviewed shows that cannabis assets, the Wessington facility or any DNS company interest were sold.

On May 28, at Jungemann’s request, the court converted the case to Chapter 11 under Subchapter V.¹⁶ Subchapter V is a streamlined reorganization track for small businesses and individuals in business. A trustee oversees it, and creditors do not file competing plans.¹⁷ Elizabeth M. Lally was appointed Subchapter V trustee. Jungemann filed a plan dated June 1. Ballots came in from Farm Credit, Dakotaland Federal Credit Union and American Express National Bank. On July 8, the court confirmed the plan “as filed” and canceled the August confirmation hearing.¹⁸ The plan’s terms, including how each class of creditors is paid, are not public on RECAP. The court awarded Jungemann’s lawyers, Gerry Law Firm, $47,805.89 in fees and $4,194.11 in expenses.¹⁹

Jungemann filed a notice of substantial consummation on July 21 and moved for a final decree on August 6. The U.S. Trustee said it had no objection. On August 26, the Subchapter V trustee filed a report describing a “consensual plan consummated, fee award only.”²⁰ A final decree closes a reorganization case once the estate is fully administered. It does not pay or erase any particular debt.²¹ As of Nov. 2, 2026, no final decree appears on the free CourtListener copy of the docket, which was last updated Oct. 2. It also shows later activity whose substance is not public: a claim filed after the bar date on August 24, a motion noticed August 27, a response on September 4 and a hearing rescheduled on September 29.²²

On August 31, the court’s deadline for complaints asking it to rule that particular debts cannot be discharged, a plaintiff identified as Covell filed an adversary proceeding, Covell v. Jungemann.²³,²⁴ Jungemann answered on September 24, and a scheduling order followed the next day.²⁵ The complaint is not on RECAP. WeedPress does not know who Covell is or what the suit claims.

The registrations

The Department of Health’s establishments list, last updated November 2, 2026, includes Dakota Natural Solutions Grow (cultivation) and Dakota Natural Solutions Industries LLC (manufacturing), both in Wessington.²⁶ The list gives legal names, trade names and cities only, not owners. WeedPress found no public notice of a transfer, suspension or revocation of either registration.

DNS says it grows in the former Wessington middle and high school, which its CEO bought in 2005.²⁷ Beadle County records show three Wessington parcels, including 195 E. Brook St., held by DNS Holdings LLC under quitclaim deeds dated October 3, 2024 and filed December 5, 2024. As of October 26, none of those parcels showed a 2026 transfer.²⁸ WeedPress has not confirmed which of those parcels holds the grow building.

The state has a claim against DNS’s cultivation company. The Department of Revenue’s business-tax delinquent report dated October 26, 2026, still the current report on the department’s website when WeedPress checked on November 2, lists Dakota Natural Solutions Grow LLC, 185 Brook St. E, Wessington. It shows $42,281.96 in tax, $12,910.43 in interest and $3,986.61 in penalties, for a total of $59,179.00. The department states that “a lien has been filed against all taxpayers listed” and that names are removed within 10 days of payment in full.²⁹ This is a company debt to the state. It is not a debt in Jungemann’s bankruptcy.

The lab lawsuit, and the “only lab” question

Cannabis Chem Lab, LLC sued “Dakota Natural Solutions” in Beadle County on September 4, 2025, in case No. 02CIV25-000228. That was seven weeks before Jungemann’s petition. As of January 2026, court officials said the docket showed no activity since October 9, 2025.³⁰ The complaint is not public online, and South Dakota’s Unified Judicial System does not offer a free online docket. WeedPress could not confirm the case’s current status or what it claims. The suit names the company, not Jungemann. Cannabis Chem Lab does not appear in any docket entry in the bankruptcy. Because the schedules are not public, WeedPress cannot say whether the lab is listed as a creditor there.

Calling Cannabis Chem Lab “the state’s only testing lab” during the lawsuit would overstate the record. When the suit was filed, the Department of Health had certified two testing establishments: Cannabis Chem Lab in Flandreau and Triverity Analytical in Rapid City.³¹,³² The department inspected Triverity on December 3, 2025.³³ By the department’s May 29, 2026 list update, Cannabis Chem Lab was the only testing establishment listed, and it is the only one on the current list.³⁴,³⁵ So the Flandreau lab was one of two registered labs when it sued. It was the only listed lab by the time the court confirmed Jungemann’s plan in July. WeedPress has not determined whether it was the only one when the sale was approved on May 20.

Who is exposed

The free docket text names these creditors and parties: Farm Credit Services of America, Dakotaland Federal Credit Union, the Small Business Administration, the IRS, Ford Motor Credit Company, American Express National Bank and Unique Funding Solutions, LLC. Unique Funding Solutions appears only in a certificate of undeliverable mail.³⁶ No dispensary, patient or testing lab appears in any docket entry. That does not prove none is a creditor. The schedules (ECF No. 19) and the list of the 20 largest unsecured creditors (ECF No. 130) would show that, and both are behind PACER.³⁷

The structure matters for anyone owed money by DNS. The case is Jungemann’s individual bankruptcy, and no DNS company is a debtor in it. As a general rule, a confirmed plan in an owner’s personal case deals with the owner’s own debts. Debts owed by a separate company are not part of it, although an owner’s personal guarantee of a company debt can be. Nothing in the records WeedPress reviewed shows that patients have been affected. The grower’s registrations remain listed, and WeedPress found no state notice about DNS product availability or recalls.

What WeedPress checked

• The full CourtListener/RECAP docket of In re Jungemann, No. 25-40330, and the adversary docket of Covell v. Jungemann, No. 26-04008, including the parties-and-attorneys pages and the RECAP search API. No document in either case was available free, and WeedPress bought no PACER documents.
• Beadle County’s public MapNet parcel layer, searched for every parcel with an owner name containing “Jungemann,” “DNS” or “Dakota Natural.”
• The Department of Health’s current establishments list, a June 5, 2026 archived copy, and the cultivation, manufacturing and testing inspection indexes.
• The Department of Revenue’s October 19 and October 26, 2026 business-tax delinquent reports.
• WeedPress’s January 22, 2026 report on 02CIV25-000228 and its October 26, 2026 report on the state’s testing labs.
• News coverage from 2022 and 2023 identifying DNS’s owner, Beadle County Commission minutes, and DNS’s own website.
• The Secretary of State’s business search, which is behind a reCAPTCHA. WeedPress did not obtain the DNS companies’ filings or member information from it.

Still unconfirmed: whether the bankruptcy schedules list any interest in a DNS company; what the sale motion and report of sale say about the buyer and price; the plan’s treatment of creditors; what Covell alleges; whether a final decree has been entered; and the status of the Beadle County lab case.

Requests for comment

WeedPress emailed Jungemann’s bankruptcy counsel of record, Clair R. Gerry of Gerry Law Firm, on Oct. 26, 2026, with questions about the property sold under the May 20 order, any interest Jungemann holds in the DNS companies, whether a final decree has been entered and the Covell case. The same day, WeedPress emailed Dakota Natural Solutions at the contact address on its website with questions about the companies’ ownership, their state registrations, the tax listing and the Beadle County lawsuit, and emailed Cannabis Chem Lab about the status of its case and whether it holds a claim in the bankruptcy. WeedPress followed up with all three on Nov. 2. WeedPress asked Gerry, Dakota Natural Solutions and Cannabis Chem Lab to respond by 5 p.m. Central on Nov. 3; none had responded by that deadline. This article will be updated with any response.

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