Hidalgo County, Texas, Cotton Farmers Wrestle with More Boll Weevils this Year. From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: March 28, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Sandra R. Billingsley, The Monitor, McAllen, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 28--McALLEN, Texas--Recent rainfalls have blessed Hidalgo County cotton farmers with beneficial soil moistures but also have kept the detrimental boll weevil thriving.

Farmers, particularly in the eastern part of the county, are finding higher numbers of the cotton-killing insects earlier in the year than in the past two years, said John Norman, entomologist and ...