Odom projects drained pest funds, ag chief says
BATON ROUGE -- A program to eliminate boll weevils from Louisiana's cotton fields is about $4 million short after former Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom tied up the department's insect eradication money in loans for a sugar mill and other building projects unrelated to pest control, his successor said Tuesday.
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