Summary: For the sixth year in a row, the boll weevil assessment for cotton producers is set at 75 cents. The funding is used to monitor for any reintroductions of the destructive boll weevil and to quickly treat any that are found. Today’s Topic with Southern Farm Network’s Mike Davis and Commissioner Troxler It … Read more
The 2022 boll weevil assessment remains at the 2021 rate of 75 cents per acre of cotton. The assessment supports the work of the Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, which traps and monitors cotton fields in the state and the Southeast for the highly destructive boll weevil. North Carolina has been weevil-free since 1987. We talked … Read more
Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Mike Davis to discuss “Today’s Topic.” The state’s boll weevil assessment will stay at 75 cents per acre of cotton. The money from the assessment is used to fund a trapping program to monitor cotton acreage for any re-introduction of boll weevils. The … Read more
