As good as last year’s cotton crop was – 4th largest in Dawson County history at 355,400 bales – this year’s could be that far to the other end of the scale.In a normal year, Dawson County would be surrounded by a sea of young, green cotton at this time of year.Instead, most fields are bare.Nothing is growing – except for some hardy weeds – on thousands and thousands of acres of Dawson County cropland.“I don’t know of any dryland cotton anywhere. The north part of the county has been zeroed out,” Johnny Todd, who farms north and east of ...