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state 90 near Rapid City in April 2011. Authorities say Hughes had 374 pounds of marijuana in a rental truck.
• It is the second sentencing in two weeks in South Dakota involving cases with a large amount of drugs. A Massachusetts man caught with nearly half a ton of marijuana in his pickup truck was sentenced earlier this month to eight years in prison.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley says the 1,300 pounds of marijuana in the two separate cases had a total street value of about $3 million.

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Cash receipts were up for both cattle and hogs in South Dakota last year. The value of egg production and turkeys in the state also

climbed.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture says 2011 cash receipts from cattle and hogs in South Dakota totaled about $2.8 billion, up 13 percent from the previous year. Cattle accounted for 80 percent of the total.
• In a separate report, USDA valued egg production in South Dakota last year at $44.5 million, up 18 percent over the year. Hens laid about 700 million eggs.
• South Dakota producers raised 4.4 million turkeys in 2011. That was

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