Bolls are the green, protective coverings that grow over the round, fluffy clumps on a cotton plant. This fruit part of the plant is where cotton grows and where cotton seeds and fibers can be ...

MONTMORENCI — Annie’s Inn, one of Aiken County’s oldest homes, is dressed in white and green throughout the year, and yellow joins the color scheme in a big way during Flags and cotton bolls ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — For more than a century, small green beetles ate through U.S. cotton crops, costing growers $20 billion and making the boll weevil the most expensive agricultural … ...

The 2017 cotton crop across the Concho Valley and Big Country has advanced to stages ranging from blooms to opening bolls – no doubt the result of planting delays from weather.

There have been several songs written about cotton, in addition to the “Boll Weevil” song. It was Huddie William Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, who wrote the lyrics to “The Cotton ...