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soybeans in nearly half of the Midwest soybean belt," the group said in an Aug. 30 bulletin.
• The government's crop yield projections will be updated this week when the USDA releases the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates on Thursday. The August report estimated that corn growers would produce 154.4 bushels per acre and soybean growers would pull 42.6 bushels per acre from their fields.
• Both crops are running late compared to last year and the five-year average, as many farmers were forced to delay planting because of the cool, dry spring.
• By this time last year, half of South Dakota's soybean crop had dropped its leaves. This year just 8 percent had dropped leaves as of last Monday, well behind the five-year average of 24 percent.
• For corn, kernels have dented in just 41 percent of the crop, behind the 78 percent pace of last year and the 49 percent five-year average.
• Elliott said farmers' late start has also left some questions about the number of planted acres.
• The USDA's Farm Service Agency will release its new crop acreage report on Sept. 17, but those numbers won't be incorporated into USDA's yield estimates until October.
• "But of course with that coming out, the market will be trading that information as well," she said.
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Sen. Tim Rave elected majority leader of SD Senate
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Republican state Sen. Tim Rave of Baltic has been elected the new majority leader of the South Dakota Senate.
• The Argus Leader reports (http://argusne.ws/18EWQnP ) that Senate Republicans on Saturday elected Rave to be majority leader. Rave replaces Sen. Russell Olson of Wentworth, who has resigned from the Legislature to take a new job.
• Rave previously was speaker of the House before being elected to the Senate. He also was chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party for two years.
• Republican Sen. Dan Lederman of Dakota Dunes will be assistant majority leader in the Senate.
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ND Grocers Association holding annual event
• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The North Dakota Grocers Association is holding its 52nd Annual Convention and Trade Show in Fargo.
• Retailers from North Dakota, South Dakota and western Minnesota are expected (Continued on page 19)
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