'Beige Book' comments on Upper Midwest (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Consumer spending, commercial real estate and construction, manufacturing, mining and energy activity increased. Tourism, home building and home sales activity decreased. Agricultural activity decreased, too, with drought conditions across most of the district. More than half of South Dakota's sorghum, sunflower and alfalfa crops were rated poor or very poor. On the jobs front, overall hiring
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