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  • Cotton Growers to Receive Rebate

    The Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation (ABWEF) board of directors voted Wednesday, February 7 to authorize the distribution of a $1 per acre cash rebate to growers for reported 2023 cotton acres registered with the Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Program.

  • Gov. Sanders makes appointments to boards and commissions

    Joe Mencer, Lake Village, to the Boll Weevil Eradication Committee. Term expires July 1, 2027. Reappointment.

  • Governor Renews and Makes Appointments

    Joe Mencer of Lake Village was reappointed to the Boll Weevil Eradication Committee and his term will expire on July 1, 2027.

  • Ag Department & Boll Weevil Foundation Partner on New Pest Initiative

    The Arkansas Department of Agriculture and the Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation recently announced a new partnership to expand efforts to provide defenses against additional threatening invasive pests.

  • Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Program partners with Arkansas Department of Agriculture on pest survey

    The Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Program, the Arkansas cotton industry’s first line of defense against invasive pests, announced a new partnership with the Arkansas Department of Agriculture in conducting pest surveys across the state’s 32 cotton-producing counties.

  • Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Program partners with Arkansas Department of Agriculture on pest survey

    ABWEP announces a new partnership with the Arkansas Department of Agriculture in conducting pest surveys across the state’s 32 cotton-producing counties. The survey will help detect the presence of pest populations in vulnerable cotton fields that could be potentially detrimental to cotton production if left untreated.

  • Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Program Partners with Arkansas Department of Agriculture on Pest Survey

    ABWEP, the Arkansas cotton industry’s first line of defense against invasive pests, announces a new partnership with the Arkansas Department of Agriculture in conducting pest surveys across the state’s 32 cotton-producing counties.

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    Arkansas Cotton Farmers to Receive $.75 Per Acre Rebate from the Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation

    A total of $318,000 will be returned to cotton farmers by the end of April.

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    ARKANSAS COTTON FARMERS TO RECEIVE REBATE FROM THE ABWEF

    Arkansas cotton farmers will receive a cash rebate from the Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation. The board of directors voted to issue a $.75 rebate to cotton farmers for acreage reported in 2021 under the state’s boll weevil eradication program.

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    Cotton farmers to receive $.75 per acre rebate

    The Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation (ABWEF) board of directors voted to provide a cash rebate of $.75 per acre to Arkansas cotton farmers for cotton acreage reported in 2021 under Arkansas’s boll weevil eradication program.

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    Arkansas cotton farmers to receive rebate from the ABWEF

    Arkansas cotton farmers will receive a cash rebate from the Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation. The board of directors voted to issue a $.75 rebate to cotton farmers for acreage reported in 2021 under the state’s boll weevil eradication program.

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    A WEBSITE AGAINST ALL WEEVILS

    Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Program debuts new website to better serve cotton growers.