BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state agriculture department says that even cotton planted just to look pretty needs state OKs and checkups for boll weevils.Assistantcommissioner Todd Parker says state ...

ROBSTOWN, Tex. - When Charles Niemann started farming in 1960, he knew the threat of the cotton boll weevil made his livelihood risky. He treated his fields in South Texas with pesticide every few ...

Boll weevils plagued the cotton industry throughout much of the Cotton Belt for almost a century before entomologists and producers executed one of the most successful pest eradication programs in the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cotton producers in Tennessee have decided to continue a program that prevents the destructive boll weevil insect from reintroduction in the state. Tennessee agriculture ...

Oct. 22—HARLINGEN — Drive through the Valley, and you can spot them everywhere, the lime green bottles used to trap cotton growers' biggest nemesis, the boll weevil. A small army of inspectors in ...

It has been more than 15 years since cotton farmers in the Big Country and Concho Valley have worried about losing their crop to boll weevils. The 12-county Southern Rolling Plains zone around San ...

FLORENCE — South Carolina cotton farmers will gather Tuesday, Dec. 17, for updates on the Boll Weevil Eradication Program in South Carolina. Healthy soil at the root: Farmers learning how to foster ...

A program designed to guard against a pest that could devastate the South Carolina cotton crop just got cheaper and easier for the farmers whose crops it aims to protect. The per-acre assessment ...

NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana and Arkansas have stepped up boll weevil trapping because two of the destructive, long-snounted beetles were found in northern Mississippi. "We run scared about getting them ...

Louisiana and Arkansas have stepped up boll weevil trapping because two of the destructive, long-snounted beetles were found in northern Mississippi. The head of Mississippi’s boll weevil eradication ...

It has been more than 15 years since cotton farmers in the Big Country and Concho Valley have worried about losing their crop to boll weevils. The 12-county Southern Rolling Plains zone around San ...