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Red meat production up in South Dakota
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture says commercial red meat production in South Dakota totaled 91.1 million pounds in September
• The agency says that's up 2 percent from a year ago and up 6 percent from August.
• Commercial hog slaughter for South Dakota totaled 415,600 during September, compared to 404,300 head the year before. The average live weight was 266 pounds, up 2 pounds from a year earlier.
• Commercial sheep and lamb slaughter for South Dakota totaled 300 during September. That was unchanged from a year earlier. The average live weight was 118 pounds, the same weight as the previous year.
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Minnesota man sentenced for kidnapping SD woman
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Minnesota man convicted of assaulting a South Dakota woman and locking her in a bedroom has been sentenced to three years in prison.
• The U.S. attorney's office says 41-year-old Robert Ford, of Pipestone, Minn., was found guilty in July of kidnapping by confinement.
• The 37-year-old victim from Flandreau reported that the Ford assaulted her and confined her to a bedroom in her own house by barricading the door. Ford reportedly fled the scene after other residents in the home heard sounds of a struggle.
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Dept. of Ag seeks drought advice from farmers
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Department of Agriculture is asking farmers and ranchers who struggled with this year's extreme drought conditions to send their ideas on drought disaster relief.
• South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Walt Bones says the Department of Agriculture wants to know how best to help producers through drought this year. He says hearing their ideas firsthand is the best way.
• Producers are asked to send in their comments and suggestions by Nov. 16. They can email them to agmail(at)state.sd.us , call 605-773-5425, or write the South Dakota Department of Agriculture, 523 E Capitol Ave., Pierre, SD 57501.
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