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From Delta Farm Press
In 2012, Cotton Belt entomologists reported the lowest percent loss to insects since annual surveys of Cotton Belt entomologists began 33 years ago, according to entomologist Mike Williams, who compiles the annual survey, Cotton Insect Losses.
Randy Crowe still has vivid memories of growing cotton in the days when the boll weevil ran rampant in the fields he and his father, Dwight, farmed near Oxford in north Mississippi.
With Louisiana now having achieved eradication status in the decade-plus effort to rid the country of the yield-robbing cotton pest, the entire Mid-South region is now officially weevil-free.
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