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corn yields, or the amount of corn produced per acre, according to USDA. In South Dakota, the expected yield would be the second-highest on record in the state.
• "We had a good start, and a lot of those areas that were really hit hard by drought last year really got some timely rains," said Keith Alverson, who farms near Chester. "This year everything got planted and we got plentiful rain.
• "In the south, it was a disaster last year," he said. This year, "everybody is pretty pleased."
• The same holds true in North Dakota, despite the drop in production.
• "We're not too far from average for North Dakota," said Kim Swenson, who farms near Lakota. "It's hard to think of it that way, since we had such a good year last year."
• Jay Nissen, who farms near Larimore, said many producers dealt with dry and wet conditions at different times of the year.
• "Considering that we mudded the crop in, then went eight weeks without rain, we're quite amazed we got the crop we did," he said.
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AP News in Brief
GOP already on 2014 offensive on troubled health care law rollout, Dems hope to change subject
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- In his West Virginia district, the TV ads attacking Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall over the calamitous startup of President Barack Obama's health care law have already begun.
• The 19-term veteran, a perennial target in a GOP-shifting state, is among many in the president's party who have recited to constituents Obama's assurance that they could keep insurance coverage they liked under the 2010 overhaul. That has proved untrue for several million Americans, igniting a public uproar that has forced Obama to reverse himself on part of the law and sent many Democrats scrambling into political self-preservation mode ahead of next year's midterm elections.
• On Friday, Rahall was among 39 Democrats who, despite an Obama veto threat, voted for a GOP measure that would let insurers continue selling policies to individuals that fall short of the health care law's requirements. It was approved 261-157.
• "I'm concerned about my integrity with voters who have returned me here 38 years. They know me enough to know I wouldn't purposely mislead them," Rahall said this week. "They have that confidence in me, and I want them to continue to have that confidence in me."
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