OIL SUNFLOWER, SOUTH DAKOTA 1997 1/
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                    :  Planted  : Harvested : Yield :  Production
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                    :  ------ Acres ------    ------- Pounds ------
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Butte...............:
Corson..............:    5,000       5,000    1,100       5,500,000
Dewey...............:
Harding.............:
Perkins.............:    3,000       2,200      850       1,870,000
Ziebach.............:
Combined counties...:    8,000       7,300    1,410      10,290,000
Northwest...........:   16,000      14,500    1,218      17,660,000
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Brown...............:   50,000      50,000    1,600      80,000,000
Campbell............:    8,000       8,000    1,400      11,200,000
Edmunds.............:   68,000      67,900    1,580     107,282,000
Faulk...............:   38,000      38,000    1,550      58,900,000
McPherson...........:   15,000      15,000    1,380      20,700,000
Potter..............:   50,000      49,800    1,690      84,162,000
Spink...............:   38,000      37,300    1,200      44,760,000
Walworth............:   21,000      21,000    1,520      31,920,000
North Central.......:  288,000     287,000    1,529     438,924,000
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Clark...............:    9,500       9,500    1,100      10,450,000
Codington...........:
Day.................:    5,000       5,000    1,540       7,700,000
Deuel...............:
Grant...............:
Hamlin..............:
Marshall............:    6,000       6,000    1,550       9,300,000
Roberts.............:
Combined counties...:    3,500       3,500    1,357       4,748,000
Northeast...........:   24,000      24,000    1,342      32,198,000
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Haakon..............:
Jackson.............:
Lawrence............:
Meade...............:
Pennington..........:
Stanley.............:    6,000       6,000    1,130       6,780,000
Combined counties...:    4,000       4,000    1,044       4,177,000
West Central........:   10,000      10,000    1,096      10,957,000
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Aurora..............:    6,000       6,000    1,350       8,100,000
Beadle..............:   35,000      34,900    1,360      47,464,000
Brule...............:   14,500      14,500    1,550      22,475,000
Buffalo.............:    5,000       5,000    1,520       7,600,000
Hand................:   68,000      67,700    1,350      91,395,000
Hughes..............:   26,000      25,800    1,560      40,248,000
Hyde................:   30,000      29,700    1,600      47,520,000
Jerauld.............:   17,000      17,000    1,440      24,480,000
Sully...............:   81,500      81,500    1,520     123,880,000
Central.............:  283,000     282,100    1,465     413,162,000
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Brookings...........:
Davison.............:
Hanson..............:
Kingsbury...........:   10,400      10,400    1,400      14,560,000
Lake................:
McCook..............:
Miner...............:
Minnehaha...........:
Moody...............:
Sanborn.............:
Combined counties...:    8,100       8,100    1,338      10,840,000
East Central........:   18,500      18,500    1,373      25,400,000
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Bennett.............:    4,200       3,800    1,100       4,180,000
Custer..............:
Fall River..........:
Shannon.............:
Combined counties...:      800         800    1,100         880,000
Southwest...........:    5,000       4,600    1,100       5,060,000
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Gregory.............:   12,000      11,800    1,350      15,930,000
Jones...............:    7,000       6,900    1,500      10,350,000
Lyman...............:   40,000      39,700    1,500      59,550,000
Mellette............:    3,500       3,400    1,250       4,250,000
Todd................:    1,500       1,500    1,550       2,325,000
Tripp...............:   27,500      27,200    1,450      39,440,000
South Central.......:   91,500      90,500    1,457     131,845,000
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Bon Homme...........:
Charles Mix.........:   10,500      10,300    1,480      15,244,000
Clay................:
Douglas.............:    2,500       2,500    1,400       3,500,000
Hutchinson..........:
Lincoln.............:
Turner..............:
Union...............:
Yankton.............:
Combined counties...:    1,000       1,000    1,200       1,200,000
Southeast...........:   14,000      13,800    1,445      19,944,000
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South Dakota........:  750,000     745,000    1,470   1,095,150,000
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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.