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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barney Pustejovsky recalls when, only a few years ago, many cotton growers opposed efforts to organize a boll weevil eradication program for the Northern Blacklands zone of Texas. “You can’t find much ...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- For more than a century, small green beetles ate through U.S. cotton crops, costing growers $20 billion and making the boll weevil the most expensive agricultural pest in the ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services recently completed the 2018 cotton boll weevil trapping and detected no weevils in Virginia. VDACS oversees a monitoring program to ensure ...