FLAX, SOUTH DAKOTA 1998 1/
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                    :  Planted  : Harvested : Yield : Production
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                    :  ------ Acres -----     ---- Bushels ----
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Butte...............:
Corson..............:   1,300       1,200     20.0       24,000
Dewey...............:
Harding.............:
Perkins.............:
Ziebach.............:
Combined counties...:   2,600       2,500     21.0       52,400
Northwest...........:   3,900       3,700     20.6       76,400
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Brown...............:
Campbell............:     900         900     20.0       18,000
Edmunds.............:     900         900     21.0       18,900
Faulk...............:
McPherson...........:   1,700       1,700     19.0       32,300
Potter..............:
Spink...............:
Walworth............:
Combined counties...:   3,300       2,900     20.7       60,000
North Central.......:   6,800       6,400     20.2      129,200
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Clark...............:
Codington...........:
Day.................:     900         800     24.0       19,200
Deuel...............:
Grant...............:
Hamlin..............:
Marshall............:
Roberts.............:
Combined counties...:     400         400     22.0        8,800
Northeast...........:   1,300       1,200     23.3       28,000
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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...............:
Combined counties...:   1,800       1,600     21.5       34,400
Central.............:   1,800       1,600     21.5       34,400
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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...........:
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Combined districts..:   1,200       1,100     23.6       26,000
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South Dakota........:  15,000      14,000     21.0      294,000
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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.