A honey bee eyes its target, a common sunflower, in Sertoma Park in Sioux Falls. South Dakota farmers can boast for the first time in recorded history that they are the nation's top sunflower growers. Wet weather and flooding in North Dakota led to a drop of hundreds of thousands of planted acres, and production fell 39 percent to 766 million pounds. Farmers in South Dakota's prime sunflower region did not have similar production problems and that state produced 777 million pounds of sunflowers, about the same as in 2010. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Lew Sherman, File)
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