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PIERRE | The 1997 state law generally banning video auctions of livestock in South Dakota also means livestock producers are on their own if they participate in video sales elsewhere, members of the state Animal Industry Board said Monday.

That cattle sellers taking part in video auctions aren’t protected by state rules emerged from a 90-minute discussion about whether state Rep. Tom Brunner, R-Nisland, should try again at lifting the ban.

The legislator told the board he had asked that a 2016 version of his bill be killed. Members of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee obliged. He didn’t bring another bill in the 2017 session.

The consensus Monday around the board’s table was too many questions remain before the 2018 session opens Jan. 9.

Silvia Christen, executive director for the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, suggested from the audience that a group could start meeting next spring. The issue perhaps didn’t rise to the level of an interim study by the Legislature, she said.