Newest ag lab in SD celebrates 1-year anniversary
• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota's newest agricultural testing laboratory is celebrating its one-year anniversary.
• South Dakota Agricultural Laboratories LLC scheduled an open house on Friday in Brookings. Owner Regina Wixon says the lab employs more than 10 people, many of them key employees from a lab on the South Dakota State University campus that closed in April 2011 due to budget cuts.
• The new lab opened in October 2011. Wixon says it does analysis on everything from pesticides to meat to manure.
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Mont. governor: no emergency releases on Missouri
• BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is asking the White House to reject calls for more water releases from reservoirs on the Missouri River to ease drought conditions downstream.
• Elected officials from states along the Mississippi River this week said the additional releases are needed to keep vital barge traffic moving in coming months.
• But Schweitzer says sending more water down the Missouri would be a "knee-jerk, illegal reaction" to the problems on the Mississippi.
• He wrote in a Wednesday letter to President Barack Obama that such a move would undermine the Army Corps of Engineers as it manages the river for the long-term.
• Corps officials started reducing Missouri River releases from South Dakota's Gavins Point Dam last week, saying the move is needed to protect recreation and hydropower on the river.
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NDSU, SDSU meet in football playoffs for 1st time
• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota State and South Dakota State have played each other in football 99 times. This will be the first time the two schools will meet in the playoffs.
• The Jackrabbits travel to Fargo Saturday to play the Bison in the second round of (Continued on page 19)
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