“Girlie, that’s a green cotton boll. ... I hadn’t picked any green bolls; but plenty of green leaves, and dead ones, too, had been sucked into my sack.

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 ...

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 … ...

ROBSTOWN, Tex. - When Charles Niemann started farming in 1960, he knew the threat of the cotton boll weevil made his livelihood risky. He treated his fields in South Texas with pesticide every few ...

Sanford poured $6,000 into creating the Cotton Bowl Classic, a play on the term "cotton boll." The boll is the green, protective coverings that grow over the round, fluffy clumps on a cotton plant.

Some years, Eddie Green starts harvesting his cotton in late August or early September. As of Thursday, the Dooly County farmer had yet to start gathering any bolls from his 320 acres of cotton ...

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 pest in the ...