In the last fortnight, I rode by a farm in south Georgia where cotton was making its way toward harvest. It takes 200 days for cotton to mature into the fluffy white stuff which is most valuable to ...
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 ...
THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WALB) - On August 12, 1909, Georgia state leaders formally asked the U.S. Congress to award a $5 million prize to the first person to eliminate the boll weevil. Leaders were hoping ...
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 ...
STARKVILLE, Miss. — A small insect pest that drove many Mississippi cotton farmers to the brink of despair a few years ago now finds its days numbered. Boll weevils could be counted in the thousands ...
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - If there is one thing Enterprise is known for, it’s their Weevils! The boll weevil, the real life beetle, came to the United States from Mexico around the early 1890s, and ...
BATON ROUGE -- A program to eliminate boll weevils from Louisiana's cotton fields is about $4 million short after former Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom tied up the department's insect eradication ...
Battles and watchful monitoring continue, but the Boll Weevil Eradication Program is winning with the help of Texas A&M AgriLife and the Department of Entomology in the Texas A&M College of ...
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