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• Ulrickson said most loss claims will not be filed until after the fall harvest, as many farmers whose land flooded have at least some acres that remained dry.
• "Usually it's a portion of the field that's underwater, not the whole thing," he said.
• Just to the north, Minnehaha County FSA executive director Larry Olsen said an estimated 8 to 15 percent of the county's planted crops were lost from heavy rainfall and hail damage.
• "The hail storm covered a fairly big area, but it really varied in intensity," Olsen said. "Some, unfortunately, got hit very hard whereas some, just maybe some corn was stripped."
• The corn condition in the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture crop report was rated 1 percent very poor, 2 percent poor, 17 percent fair, 67 percent good and 13 percent excellent. The crop is growing at a pace consistent with the five-year average, with corn silking at 5 percent, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
• The soybean crop condition was rated 1 percent very poor, 3 percent poor, 20 percent fair, 67 percent good, and 9 percent excellent. About 39 percent of the crop is blooming and 4 percent is setting pods, ahead of the five-year percent average.
• Ulrickson said the switch to warm, dry weather since the flooding has helped the crops that made it through.
• "It was quite dry when we put it in, then we starting getting rain," he said. "Since the flood, the weather has turned warm and dry, which has helped many crops thrive."
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• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota State University in Brooking is one of 14 recently designated as an innovation and economic prosperity university.
• It comes from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and its Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness and Economic Prosperity.
• The group says the honor is for working with public and private sector groups to support economic development through a variety of activities, including innovation and entrepreneurship, technology transfer, talent and workforce development and community development.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Saturday is Neutrino Day at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.

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