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SD Wounded Knee Museum reopens a year after fire
• WALL, S.D. (AP) -- A year after a fire destroyed the Wounded Knee Museum in Wall, it has reopened in a new location in the western South Dakota city.
• An electrical malfunction was blamed for the Sept. 2, 2012, fire the destroyed the museum and also took 30 museum exhibits linked to the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890.
• Co-founder Steve Wyant tells the Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/17iVFew ) that insurance did not come close to covering the loss, but he says some items that survived the blaze are now housed in a new museum in downtown Wall.
• The museum also has a few new features, such as an enhanced, photographic reproduction of a historic treaty.
• The museum is dedicated to the December 1890 massacre in which 300 Lakota people were killed by U.S. Army soldiers.
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Hot, dry weather could affect corn, soy yields
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The hot, dry weather persisting in most areas of South Dakota is likely to hurt soybean and corn yields, analysts say, as the crops are less mature than during a typical summer.
• Lisa Elliott, a commodity marketing specialist with the South Dakota State University Department of Economics, said the August weather has likely affected crops that are lagging behind in maturity.
• The soybean markets are already anticipating lower yields, as September contracts have jumped from about $12 to near $14.50 during the past month on the Chicago Board of Trade.
• "The market expects it to go down," Elliott said. "The question is how much will it most likely go down on those yields."
• Commodity Weather Group, which tracks weather relevant to the agriculture and energy industries, lowered its South Dakota corn yield projection 4 percent from its July estimate to 146.1 bushels per acre and its soybean yield projection 12 percent from its July estimate to 34.9 bushels per acre.
• "The very dry pattern in recent weeks has taken a toll on the pod set and fill for (Continued on page 18)
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