DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) -Over 100 years ago, the boll weevil insect threatened to destroy the cotton crop in Enterprise. The citizens planted peanut crops to avoid economic ruin, thus bringing prosperity ...

Don’t tell anyone, but I used to dread the holiday season. The trouble started Christmas morning when I was 5. One of my three older brothers was putting together his new Lionel train tracks on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

State Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said the boll weevil has been eradicated in Louisiana. “When our administration took office in January of 2008, we set a goal of completely ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Agriculture officials say that for the first time in more than a century, there have been no boll weevils found in the Arkansas cotton crop. The state began treating fields ...

Boll weevil management remains a critical aspect of sustainable cotton agriculture worldwide, given the pest’s capacity to inflict severe yield losses by attacking reproductive structures of cotton ...

Now that the boll-weevil army, which crossed the Rio Grande some twenty years ago, has reached the walls of the North Carolina mountains, and during its long march has changed the economic life of the ...