Source: NCDA&CS, 2/27/18

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 pest was eradicated from the state in 1987. Trapping has helped address any spot re-introductions to keep the pest from becoming re-established.

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