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New state ag chief opposes cutting pest programs
BECKLEY, W.Va. -- West Virginia's incoming agriculture commissioner says the state can't afford to eliminate a black fly spraying program in southern counties or cut funding for another program aimed at reducing the gypsy moth population.
"We have to find some other place in the budget to cut the 7.5 percent, rather than those two programs,'' Walt Helmick told The Register-Herald.
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New state ag chief opposes cutting pest programs
BECKLEY, W.Va. -- West Virginia's incoming agriculture commissioner says the state can't afford to eliminate a black fly spraying program in southern counties or cut funding for another program aimed at reducing the gypsy moth population.
"We have to find some other place in the budget to cut the 7.5 percent, rather than those two programs,'' Walt Helmick told The Register-Herald.
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