Larry Rhoden: “Agriculture is about seven times larger than our number two…”

“Well, generally speaking, you know, it's important to understand that ag is. Agriculture is our number one industry in South Dakota. But that's even kind of an understatement because it Agriculture is about seven times larger than our number two industry, which is tourism. So we're very heavily reliant upon agriculture. And when the farm economy is not doing well, our state's not doing well. We just talked about that this morning at a press conference is.” (13:14–13:22)

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