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mal year," Hart said.
• It's possible the very good areas could end up harvesting a good enough crop to help offset the land that didn't get planted or suffers from too much water, he said.
• The government left unchanged the 97.3 million acres planted in corn and the anticipated 89.5 million acres to be harvested.
• Those numbers are likely to change, however, because it's clear in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and parts of northern Iowa that farmers couldn't get into the fields in time to plant what they thought they would this year.
• The adjustment likely will be seen in an annual report on acreage to be released June 28. That report is based on surveys with farmers reflecting what they actually have in the ground.
• Some analysts expect the government to reduce the corn acres by anywhere between 1 million and 3 million acres for the report.
• No changes were made in the soybean estimates in Wednesday's report although the government increased the expected average price to between $9.75 and $11.75 per bushel from the earlier range of $9.50 to $11.50.
• Corn prices also were adjusted upward 10 cents per bushel on both the low and high end to between $4.40 and $5.20 a bushel.
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S. Dakota tribal members to vote on alcohol ban
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Native American tribe that has long battled the devastating effects of alcoholism is planning to ask its tribal members whether it should legalize alcohol on its South Dakota reservation.
• The Oglala Sioux tribal council voted 9-7 Tuesday to bring the question of legalizing alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to a public vote.
• "I'm just really frightened for our children and our elders," said tribal council member Danielle Labeau, who voted no to bringing the issue to a public vote. "No amount of money can pay for the damages done to our babies, our children. When it comes to alcohol, when people are under the influence, they make horrible decisions. Not a million, billion dollars can ever undue the bad decisions people make when they are under the influence."
• Federal law bans the sale of alcohol on Indian reservations unless the tribal council allows it. Alcohol was legalized on the reservation for two months in 1970, but the ban was restored two months later. An attempt to allow it in 2004 died after an outcry.
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