According to USDA figures released December 30, November 2021 cotton marketings totaled 3,336,000 bales, a huge and impressive uptick in the number of bales marketed compared to the previous month.
For the second time, Klondike FFA member Kenley Krohn, 13, walked away with the grand champion title in the swine category on the second day of the Dawson County Junior Livestock Show.
For the second straight year, O’Donnell FFA member Kyndall Halfmann, 12, showed the grand champion steer division during the Dawson County Junior Livestock Show Thursday evening.
Dawson County 4-H member Emiliana Gonzales, 11, won the grand championship in the goat division of the Dawson County Junior Livestock Show on Thursday evening.
A pair of sisters took home the top honors in the lamb competition held Thursday evening at the Dawson County Junior Livestock Show.
• On Jan. 14, 1639, in Hartford, Connecticut, the first constitution in the American colonies, the “Fundamental Orders,” is adopted. The Fundamental Orders declared that “the foundation of authority is in the free consent of the people.”
You could say Lamesa FFA student Sagen Oaks was literally born to raise and exhibit animals in livestock shows.
Almost 70 residents of Dawson County have been diagnosed with COVID-19 during just the past two weeks, according to the latest report afrom the South Plains Public Health District (SPPHD).
A casual glance while driving by doesn’t indicate anything out of the ordinary among the row of residences on the south side of the 1000 block of S. 3rd St.
COVID-19 appeared to be on the run in Dawson County as 2021 arrived, with cases declining and immunizations beginning to arrive.
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