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Auction extravaganza attracts crowd to Iowa casino

By Barry Amundson, Reporter
Feb 21, 2012
Feb 21, 2012

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Longtime farmer Leon Thompson of Beresford, S.D., came to the "The Grand Midwest Property Auction" in Larchwood, Iowa, earlier this month to bid on farmland near his 850-acre farm by Beresford in Union County.

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