FLAX, SOUTH DAKOTA 1996 1/
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                    :  Planted  : Harvested : Yield : Production
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                    :  ------ Acres -----     ---- Bushels ----
                    :
Butte...............:
Corson..............:
Dewey...............:
Harding.............:
Perkins.............:
Ziebach.............:
Northwest...........:
                    :
Brown...............:
Campbell............:
Edmunds.............:     900         800     16.0       12,800
Faulk...............:
McPherson...........:   1,200       1,000     11.0       11,000
Potter..............:
Spink...............:
Walworth............:
Combined counties...:   2,700       2,400     17.2       41,200
North Central.......:   4,800       4,200     15.5       65,000
                    :
Clark...............:
Codington...........:
Day.................:   1,700       1,500     10.0       15,000
Deuel...............:
Grant...............:
Hamlin..............:
Marshall............:
Roberts.............:
Combined counties...:     500         500     14.0        7,000
Northeast...........:   2,200       2,000     11.0       22,000
                    :
Haakon..............:
Jackson.............:
Lawrence............:
Meade...............:
Pennington..........:
Stanley.............:
West Central........:
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Aurora..............:
Beadle..............:
Brule...............:
Buffalo.............:
Hand................:
Hughes..............:
Hyde................:
Jerauld.............:
Sully...............:
Central.............:
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Brookings...........:
Davison.............:
Hanson..............:
Kingsbury...........:
Lake................:
McCook..............:
Miner...............:
Minnehaha...........:
Moody...............:
Sanborn.............:
East Central........:
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Bennett.............:
Custer..............:
Fall River..........:
Shannon.............:
Southwest...........:
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Gregory.............:
Jones...............:
Lyman...............:
Mellette............:
Todd................:
Tripp...............:
South Central.......:
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Bon Homme...........:
Charles Mix.........:
Clay................:
Douglas.............:
Hutchinson..........:
Lincoln.............:
Turner..............:
Union...............:
Yankton.............:
Southeast...........:
                    :
Combined districts..:   3,000       2,800     13.9       39,000
                    :
South Dakota........:  10,000       9,000     14.0      126,000
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1/  Counties and Districts with less than 500 acres planted for
    all purposes are combined with the next smallest county or
    district and shown under "Combined counties" or "Combined
    districts" and included in the District and/or State Totals.