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reclaim bragging rights as the nation's top producers.
• Last year, wet weather and flooding led to a drop of hundreds of thousands of acres in North Dakota, and South Dakota surpassed its northern neighbor as the leading sunflower state for the first time in recorded history.
• The Agriculture Department projects sunflower acres to rebound about 31 percent in North Dakota this year, to 760,000. South Dakota's acreage is pegged at 540,000, also up from last year but only by about 11 percent.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw is scheduled to give the keynote speech Friday evening at a banquet benefiting McCrossan

Boys Ranch.
• The ranch northwest of Sioux Falls is a private nonprofit organization for troubled boys between 10 and 18.
• Brokaw was born in Webster and raised in Yankton, and he received his degree from the University of South Dakota. The longtime NBC newsman authored "The Greatest Generation" and several other best-selling books.
• The event at the Sioux Falls Convention Center will feature a live and silent auction, dinner and

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