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The South Dakota Corn Growers Association still needed to ship out over a third of its held-over 2013 harvest, as of early May, an unheard of situation.
The disruption in the northern High Plains adds to the devastation to agriculture and the food system from the drought and inaction in the Southwest, especially in Texas and California, as well as the southern High Plains.
In the northern states of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, there are daily headline reports of severe damage to all sectors of agriculture, cereal grains, oilseeds, sugar beets and more, whose impact is terrible, not only for the immediate U.S. food supply, but in terms of the globalized world food chain, which already is producing far below breakeven.
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