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• Commodity Marketing Specialist Lisa Elliott will provide an outlook for wheat prices based on supply and demand and talk about other crops raised by producers. She'll also discuss potential changes in the crop insurance program.
• The free meeting will be held at the auditorium and begin at 6:30 p.m. with a meal.
• The winter wheat meeting has been running for more than 20 years.
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Heat stressing South Dakota row crops, rain needed
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Ag officials say South Dakota's heat wave is putting a lot of stress on crops.
• The U.S. Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that the dry conditions helped the small grain harvest, but row crops are in need of more rain.
• At the end of last week, winter wheat, spring wheat, oats and barley were all behind average and also behind where the crops were at this time last year.
• Corn at the dough stage was behind last year but ahead of average, while soybeans setting pods and sunflowers blooming were slightly behind average.
• The third cutting of alfalfa was 49 percent complete, behind 68 percent last year but ahead of the 46 percent average.
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Texas man gets 11 years for ND bank robbery
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A Texas man was sentenced Monday to 11 years in prison for his part in a bank robbery in the western North Dakota town of New England.
• Johnner Ward Jr. received a four-year sentence from U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland for a bank robbery charge. After that term, he will serve seven years for use and carry of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, said U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon.
• Ward, 29, of Abilene, Texas, pleaded guilty to both counts in February. He also must pay more than $4,200 in restitution and fees.
• Jurors convicted Ward's accomplice, 19-year-old Colt Schneider of Rapid City, S.D., on Thursday for his role in the bank holdup.
• The two men wore black ski masks and carried guns when they entered American Bank Center in New England on Oct. 28 and ran away after grabbing money from a bank employee, authorities said.
• Investigators learned that a man matching the physical characteristics of one of (Continued on page 24)
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