SWEETPOTATO WEEVIL PUTS INDUSTRY AT RISK IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
OVERTON — Forget the millennium bug. A small, black and red snouted weevil, however, could spell disaster for the sweet potato industry in northeast Texas in 2000 and beyond. Thanks to favorable soils, good rains and being designated sweetpotato weevil-free, most of the sweet potatoes grown in Texas for decades have been produced in Smith,…