FARGO, N.D. -- The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission revoked Anderson Seed Co.'s grain buyers license at its Redfield, S.D., plant, but will not put the company's elevator property into receivership because of an environmental issue, officials say. Some $2.6 million is owed to 38 farmers in the state for unpaid grain, says Chris Nelson, the SDPUC chairman. The state has a $100,000 bond that could apply to $2.2 million of the amount...

FARGO, N.D. -- As of Feb. 23, the North Dakota Public Utilities Commission had not moved to change the brokerage status of Anderson Seed Co., a Mentor, Minn.-based sunflower company whose assets have been sold in the wake of nonpayment reports. "We are still working on our paperwork, and -- unfortunately -- are still in the infancy draft stages," says Sue Richter, director of licenses for the NDPUC in Bismarck, N.D. Richter says farmers...