Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation Board Asks for New Referendum.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: December 20, 2001 | Copyright information

By David Mercer, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 20--On the same day they certified that farmers in two northeastern counties had voted against joining the state's Boll Weevil Eradication Program, the nine members of the Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation board decided Tuesday to ask for another referendum.

About 61 percent of the cotton farmers in Mississippi County and extreme eastern Craighead County...

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