"On today's edition of Dakota Midday, host Paul Guggenheimer welcomed Jim Woster, who worked at the Sioux Falls Stockyards in various capacities for forty years. He comments on the end of an era...the end of cattle sales by the Sioux Falls Stockyards by the end of the month. Then Paul checked in with regional political junkies Kevin Woster, longtime reporter and columnist for the Rapid City Journal and Dave Kranz, columnist for the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. They talked about President Obama's first supreme court nominee and the 2010 South Dakota Governor's race among other things. And finally, it's the first installment of Janet Davison's ""In The Garden"" segment. "