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nouncement means the state will not have to rush a decision on the project.
• "We need to figure out how to do it, what it should really cost, are we really doing it right, and then move forward in a really positive way. This gives us time to do that," Hunhoff said.
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SD winter wheat crop forecast at 29.7M bushels
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture is forecasting South Dakota's 2013 winter wheat crop to be down 51 percent from last year.
• The department in its crop production report forecast the crop based on June 1 conditions at 29.7 million bushels, which is unchanged from the May 1 estimate.
• The average yield is forecast at 33 bushels per acre, unchanged from last month but down 17 bushels from last year.
• Acreage to be harvested for grain is estimated at 900,000 acres, unchanged from May 1 but down 26 percent from last year. That would be 72 percent of the planted acres.
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Sioux Falls ice storm cost estimated at $9 million
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls officials estimate that a three-day ice and snow storm in April cost the city $9 million.
• The storm that hit April 9 downed trees, tree branches and power lines in South Dakota's largest city, at one point knocking out power to more than 115,000 people in eastern South Dakota.
• The Sioux Falls estimate includes the cost of snow removal, personnel overtime, damage to park property and the cleanup the branches, which took about two months.
• Officials have asked the City Council to dip into the Sioux Falls' reserve fund, which has almost $40 million. City Council members are still debating whether to accept federal help. Some officials believe other disaster-stricken areas of the country such as tornado-devastated Moore, Okla., might need the money more.
• The city has recovered from the storm, Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether said Tuesday, when city officials held a news conference to announce the end of the tree branch cleanup project that was dubbed Operation Timber Strike.
• "There wasn't a neighborhood, there wasn't a park, there wasn't a street that wasn't impacted in a major, major way. Now it's 60 days later, and you can barely tell that anything happened," Huether said. "That's the way Sioux Falls wanted it to (Continued on page 24)
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