Counties in the Southern High Plains-Caprock Eradication Zone are Howard, Kent, Andrews, Borden, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Ector, Gaines, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Midland, Motley, Terry, and Yoakum. Within a month's time, the Legislature passed a new bill to satisfy constitutional muster by putting the program under the Texas Department of Agriculture. Gov. George W. Bush signed the bill into law May 30 - essentially giving the program a second chance. In swearing in board members from throughout Texas at the state headquarters office in Abilene the next week on June 3, Texas Ag Commissioner Rick Perry made it clear that the program must meet the approval by growers in each zone and be producer-driven. Okla. A highly successful boll weevil warrior in other Cotton Belt efforts, Myers had been brought out of USDA retirement to run the Texas program.
Work continues in that and several other zones.
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