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Sioux City Stockyards The famous Sioux City Stockyards - once the world's largest - are closing. For more than a century, they transformed Sioux City, Iowa into a boomtown. But changes in the farm economy have made the stockyards obsolete. The city will lose a part of it's heritage and gain a Home Depot. South Dakota Public Radio's Brian Bull reports.

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The famous Sioux City Stockyards - once the world's largest - are closing. For more than a century, they transformed Sioux City, Iowa into a boomtown. But changes in the farm economy have made the stockyards obsolete. The city will lose a part of it's heritage and gain a Home Depot. South Dakota Public Radio's Brian Bull reports.