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WINTER WHEAT SEEDINGS


News Release

January 12, 2005



WINTER WHEAT SEEDINGS DOWN


SIOUX FALLS, January 12, 2005 -- Winter wheat seedings for the 2005 crop totaled 1.5 million acres, down 150,000 acres (9 percent) from the previous year's crop, according to USDA's South Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service. In the last ten years, South Dakota averaged 1.520 million seeded acres of winter wheat.


The complete report can be accessed at www.usda.gov/nass/
or call Carter Anderson or Steve Noyes at
605-323-6500



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