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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kansas cotton producers are proposing that lawmakers create a prevention program for boll weevils, an insect that could decimate a crop of growing importance to the state's agricultural economy. Boll ...

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 ...

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 handful of bullish Kansas senators bugged by a proposal intended to prevent beetle infestations that could devastate cotton crops bogged down a boll weevil bill late into the night. The bill, which ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.(AP) — A tiny pest that has caused billions of dollars in damage to cotton fields nationwide has nearly been eradicated from Arkansas fields, officials said. Danny Kizer, executive ...

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 ...