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SD Public Land Leases Up for Renewal

SD Public Land Leases Up for Renewal

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Many of those who lease public lands from the State of South Dakota will be getting options notices in the mail next week.
South Dakota School & Public Lands Commissioner Ryan Brunner says those leases run out at the end of the year…….

Brunner says the lease price will go up a bit by next spring……

Brunner says the demand for grazing land continues to push up the payments…..

The state owns a total of just over seven hundred sixty thousand acres of grazing land.

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