DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Several streets in downtown Enterprise will be closed to traffic on Saturday as the city celebrates the Boll Weevil Fall Festival. According to information provided by the city’s ...

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 ...

In the center of Enterprise, Alabama, there's an intersection honoring an insect. "We are one of the few cities in the world where you have, in the middle of town, a pest that's standing up on a ...

Nov. 10—MONTICELLO, Ark. — East Central University sports information director Teri LaJeunesse is usually pretty tame — one way or the other — when posting athletics information on the Tigers' ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the appearance of the boll weevil, the American cotton crop had reached 16,000,000 bales in one season. The demand for cotton has been good for the past two years, but so serious have been the ...