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Yahoo! Finance
08-28-2009, 07:20 AM
<b>Yahoo! Finance: Commodity News</b>

About 2 million acres of North Dakota cropland -- or roughly 10 percent -- did not get planted this year because of flooding caused by spring snowmelt and heavy rains, according to federal Farm Service Agency estimates.

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