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                            South Dakota        
                          JUNE CROP REPORT

News Release                                       June 10, 2005

                                   
       WINTER WHEAT FORECASTED PRODUCTION UP FROM LAST MONTH
                                  

SIOUX FALLS, June 10, 2005 - The South Dakota June 1 winter 
wheat production forecast is 65.8 million bushels, up 4 percent 
from last month's 63.0 million bushels, according to USDA's 
South Dakota Ag Statistics Office.  The 2005 forecast is 17 
percent above  last year's harvest of 56.3 million bushels. 
Yield is forecast at 47 bushels per acre, up 2 bushels from 
last month and 2 bushels above last year's yield.  The current 
forecast breaks the record production of 61.5 million bushels in
2003 and ties the record yield set in 1999.
     
    The complete report can be accessed at www.usda.gov/nass/
           or call Carter Anderson or Steve Noyes at
                          605-323-6500