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behind than corn.
• The average yield for the state's corn crop is forecast at 145 bushels per acre, up 7 bushels from the August estimate and the second highest of record. The state's corn crop is forecast at a record high 769 million bushels, up 44 percent from last year, according to the USDA.
• Corn at the dough stage is 98 percent, ahead of the five-year average of 94 percent, and plants reaching the dented stage hit 67 percent, just behind the 70 percent five-year average.
• But just 5 percent of plants have reached the mature stage, well behind last year's 41 percent and the 13 percent five-year average.
• The state's soybean yield is forecast at 35 bushels per acre, down a bushel from the August forecast but up 5 bushels from last year. South Dakota soybean farmers are expected to produce 163 million bushels in 2013, down 3 percent from the August forecast but still the second highest of record.
• By this time last year, three-quarters of South Dakota's soybean crop had dropped its leaves. This year, just 28 percent had dropped leaves as of Monday, well behind the five-year average of 41 percent.
• Commodity Weather Group in a recent bulletin said a pattern of dry weather over the past weeks has taken a toll on the pod set and fill for soybeans in nearly half of the Midwest soybean belt.
• The firm, which tracks weather relevant to the agriculture and energy industries, had already lowered its estimate to 34.9 bushel in its Aug. 30 bulletin.
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Powerball ticket sold in Sioux Falls worth $40,000
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Powerball ticket sold in Sioux Falls is worth $40,000 in the latest drawing.
• South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball in Wednesday's drawing to win the game's $10,000 third prize. The ticket buyer also purchased a $1 option that quadrupled the prize.
• Powerball is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of winning $40,000 are 1 in about 649,000.
• The jackpot for Saturday's drawing sits at $317 million.
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SD guardsmen helping out on southern border
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Soldiers with the South Dakota National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility in Rapid City have departed for the southern U.S. border to (Continued on page 26)
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