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 […]
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 […]
Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” The board of the Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation of North Carolina has set the 2015 monitoring assessment at $1 per acre of cotton, which is the same as last year. The fee supports the foundation’s efforts to […]
Each week we round up the latest N.C. agricultural headlines from news outlets across the state and country, as well as excerpts from the stories. Click on the links to go straight to the full story. “Vilsack: USDA to lead China trade mission in March,” Charlotte Observer: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says his department […]
Each week we’ll round up the latest N.C. agriculture headlines from newspapers across the state and country, as well as excerpts from the stories. Click on the links to go straight to each paper’s full story. “Land will remain forever green,” Raleigh News and Observer: It seems to Lin Andrew that his family has been […]