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Vol. 49 No. 10 

May 2010 

Inside this Issue

Stocks 

CCC-Loan Entries 

Exports 

Exports Sales and 

Commitments 

Acreage, Production, 

Quotations, and Prices 

American Pima Spot 

Quotations 

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CCC-loan entries of 2009-crop totaled 224,830 running bales through May 31, 2010. 

Repayments have been made on 195,389 bales. Loans remained outstanding on 9,485 

bales, of which 7,698 were Form G and 1,787 were Form A. 

Stocks of American Pima in public storage at the end of April 2010 totaled 71,091 bales. 

In April last year, there were 395,661 bales in public storage and 241,636 two years ago. 

June 11, 2010 

Table 1. American Pima: Stocks in Public Storage, running bales, by months and seasons, 2004-2010

Season

beginning Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Season

August 1 total

Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales

 2004 16,388 14,921 87,137 193,494 219,726 187,523 109,908 43,079 19,586 16,811 12,428 9,375 -

 2005 9,308 7,088 57,372 209,241 324,319 394,155 281,501 158,590 142,744 140,380 98,632 62,520 -

 2006 41,984 32,000 84,193 257,727 431,619 581,929 499,230 442,858 318,207 242,662 184,514 123,273 -

 2007 165,346 95,139 213,667 431,028 557,109 612,818 486,391 346,473 241,636 196,673 143,060 146,175 -

 2008 110,473 126,206 172,159 309,499 430,465 465,930 445,911 414,239 395,661 336,473 340,667 261,510 -

 2009 2/ 237,353 230,103 265,839 379,448 399,332 289,774 255,726 116,543 71,091 -

1/ Stocks at end of reporting period. 2/ Preliminary.

Note: The Bureau of the Census has the following footnote on their Long Staple Cotton data: "Long Staple Cotton includes American Pima, Sea Island 

and domestic raw cotton other than American Upland.

Source: Bureau of the Census

 Stocks in public storage 1/

State Loans made Loans repaid Delivered to CCC

Form A Form G Total Form A Form G Form A Form G Form A Form G Total

Arizona 3,826 3,826 2,387 1,439 1,439

California 21,743 165,885 187,628 19,956 160,547 1,787 5,338 7,125

New Mexico 3,828 3,828 3,668 160 160

Texas 29,548 29,548 28,787 761 761

Total 21,743 203,087 224,830 19,956 195,389 1,787 7,698 9,485

Reprint of table from USDA, Farm Service Agency.

Table 2. Loans made, repaid and outstanding on 2009-ELS cotton in Commodity Credit Corporation

cotton loan program through May 31, 2010

Loans outstanding

Running bales Running bales Running bales Running bales
 2 

Exports of American Pima cotton from the United States totaled 17,400 running bales during May 2010 this season, 

according to the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), USDA. Exporters shipped 21,600 bales last year and 84,600 bales 

two years earlier. 

 

Production Ginnings Average

 480 lb. Running Farm loan

Planted Harvested bales bales Price rate 2/

Pounds 1,000 bales Cents Cents Cents

178.6 177.4 432.3 416.9 121.0 106.79 99.79 79.77

249.6 248.0 745.6 716.9 87.8 121.40 117.28 80.68

270.4 268.6 630.5 607.0 118.0 121.64 80.63

326.0 323.5 765.4 737.2 94.3 80.70

292.2 288.1 851.8 823.3 98.8 88.09 80.80

174.0 168.7 430.6 413.2 113.0 99.86 80.75

141.7 138.5 399.1 384.9 80.72

All prices represent cents per pound.

1/ 2003 to 2005 net weight, in mixed lots, mike 35 and above, uncompressed, FOB warehouse; 2006 and later net weight, in mixed lots, mike 35 and above, UD free, FOB car/truck. 2/ Net weight, 

mike 35 and above. 3/ Beginning August 1, 2006, the San Joaquin Valley and Desert Southwest American Pima Markets were combined and quotations are now issued for a single American Pima 

 96.79 3/

 2009 4/ 1,353

Season beginning August 1 Yield per acre Grade 3 staple 46 quotation 1/

2003

2007 1,419

2008 1,226

1,170

2004 1,443

2005

 2006 1,136

Acreage

Table 5. American Pima: Acreage, production, quotations and prices, by seasons, 2003-2009

1,127 American Pima

Table 3. American Pima: Exports by m onth, running bales, 2004-2010

Season

beginning Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Season

August 1 total

Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales

 2004 4,400 37,800 89,800 134,900 160,800 111,800 165,500 33,000 9,200 11,300 1,600 785,000 24,900

 2005 6,300 5,300 2,500 65,200 52,100 32,900 115,100 188,400 52,400 21,300 32,000 36,600 610,100

 2006 24,700 14,900 40,900 39,600 52,600 65,700 67,400 127,100 92,100 161,900 (40,800) 43,200 689,300

 2007 52,300 22,600 24,300 64,800 61,200 131,500 102,100 99,800 78,100 84,600 31,600 17,800 770,700

 2008 7,400 6,500 12,600 4,300 7,100 5,800 23,600 20,500 9,300 21,600 30,000 70,300 219,000

 2009 2/ 51,900 25,500 52,200 99,900 135,900 83,700 50,500 47,700 49,700 17,400 

1/ Stocks at end of reporting period. 2/ Preliminary.

Note: The Bureau of the Census has the following footnote on their Long Staple Cotton data: "Long Staple Cotton includes American Pim a, Sea Island 

and domestic raw cotton other than American Upland.

Source: Bureau of the Census

 Stocks in public storage 1/

7.1 4.6 6.3 0.2 2.5

18.3 20.4 16.8 14.5 12.7

11.2 14.3 10.6 2.1 4.3

1.4 4.7 8.6 0.1 0.0

5.6 7.4 8.9 2.2 0.0

24.9 6.4 16.5 8.2 4.8

0.6 1.0 4.4 0.0 0.0

69.1 58.8 72.1 27.3 24.3

2.2 11.8 13.7 9.0 9.6

246.3 163.6 176.4 57.5 319.0

75.0 91.6 146.7 27.2 124.5

41.3 59.4 68.0 20.3 22.3

44.0 49.8 53.3 14.8 24.2

10.8 21.8 22.5 4.7 12.7

55.9 113.6 159.0 26.8 69.7

7.6 31.3 29.8 2.9 10.9

15.3 22.1 24.1 8.8 17.9

4.2 6.7 18.4 17.1 1.8

502.6 571.7 711.9 189.1 612.6

 

3.0 5.5 5.3 2.0 0.9

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

0.5 0.0 0.1 0.8 0.0

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.4

2.4 0.5 0.3 1.2 3.3

1.9 13.6 28.2 2.4 14.8

0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

10.1 19.6 33.9 6.6 19.4

 

0.0 2.4 14.6 3.8 18.4

581.8 652.5 832.5 226.8 674.8

Listed in thousand 480-lb. bales for 2005-2010. * 2009-10 sales listed in running bales through June 4, 2010

Source: USDA-FAS U.S. Export Sales -June 10, 2010

Reprint of table from Supima web site.

Ecuador

Guatemala

Mexico

Peru

Honduras

World Totals

Salvador

Venezuela

W. Hemisphere Totals

Rest of World

Other

Asia Totals

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Indonesia

Japan

Korean Republic

Pakistan

Taiwan

Thailand

Other

Europe Totals

Bangladesh

China

India

Belgium

Germany

Italy

Portugal

Switzerland

Turkey

 Table 4. American Pima Exports Sales and Commitments

Country 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010* 
 3 

 

Leaf

44 46 48

1 120.50 125.50 125.75

2 120.25 125.25 125.50

3 112.25 117.25 117.50

4

5

6

1 120.25 125.25 125.50

2 120.00 125.00 125.25

3 112.00 117.00 117.25

4 102.00 107.50 107.75

5

6

1 110.00 115.00 115.25

2 107.50 112.50 112.75

3 107.00 112.00 112.25

4 98.00 103.00 103.25

5 92.00 96.50 96.75

6

1 92.00 97.00 98.00

2 91.75 96.75 97.25

3 91.50 96.50 96.50

4 86.50 91.50 91.50

5 85.25 90.25 90.25

6

1

2 81.00 88.25 88.25

3 81.00 87.75 88.25

4 81.00 82.25 82.25

5 80.75 82.00 82.00

6

1

2 73.25 73.50 73.50

3 73.25 73.50 73.50

4 73.25 73.50 73.50

5 73.00 73.25 73.25

6 72.50 72.75 72.75

2/ The current Pima spot quotations represent prices from local sales, export sales, and offerings last reported on January 13, 2010.

6 Prep

Other

1 -515

2 -835

1/ Pima spot quotations for color-leaf-staple combinations not quoted will be included as sales of those qualities which are reported.

Level Diff.

1 -610

2 -895

5 37.5 and Above 0

36.5-37.4 -550

Extraneous Matter

(Grams per Tex)

Range Diff.

35.4 and Below -1050

35.5-36.4 -800

35 & Above 0

4 Strength

3 30-32 -550

33-34 -395

26 & Below -1350

27-29 -945

1

2

Mike

Range Diff.

 American Pima quotations are for cotton equal to the Official Standards, net weight, in mixed lots, UD Free, FOB warehouse. 1/

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