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Cotton crop expected to be small this year

Don’t expect a big cotton crop this year. Between the drought and the rain that either came too soon or too late, cotton farmers are faced with a failed harvest or a low one.It was the same situation farmers faced last year.“Not very good. We’re in pretty bad shape this year as we were in last year,” said Dawson County Extension Agent Gary Roschetzky. “We’re probably in the same scenario we were last year.”As of Oct. 1, an estimated 90,000 acres of cotton of the 285,000 acres planted in Dawson County failed out this year.“I don’t think we will see ...

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