FLAX, SOUTH DAKOTA 1997 1/
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                    :  Planted  : Harvested : Yield : Production
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                    :  ------ Acres -----     ---- Bushels ----
                    :
Butte...............:
Corson..............:
Dewey...............:
Harding.............:
Perkins.............:
Ziebach.............:
Northwest...........:
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Brown...............:
Campbell............:
Edmunds.............:
Faulk...............:
McPherson...........:   2,400       2,000     15.0       30,000
Potter..............:
Spink...............:
Walworth............:
Combined counties...:   4,800       4,700     18.7       87,700
North Central.......:   7,200       6,700     17.6      117,700
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Clark...............:
Codington...........:
Day.................:   1,500       1,400     20.0       28,000
Deuel...............:
Grant...............:
Hamlin..............:
Marshall............:
Roberts.............:
Combined counties...:     300         300     20.7        6,200
Northeast...........:   1,800       1,700     20.1       34,200
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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..:   6,000       5,600     17.9      100,100
                    :
South Dakota........:  15,000      14,000     18.0      252,000
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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.