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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO The ownership rights to the 42-year-old, family-owned Boll Weevil restaurant chain are unclear as the parent company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation earlier this month and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) -The boll weevil plays a significant role in the history of the City of Enterprise. The people of Enterprise erected a monument of the boll weevil in 1919 after overcoming their ...

I 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 ...