Table 1. Oil mill production, shipments and stocks of cotton linters, by months,

United States, 2003-2007 1/ 

Season

beginning Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Total

August 1

1,000 bales

Production

2003 43 30 63 65 64 66 62 69 55 62 53 50 609

2004 55 43 58 57 59 61 55 59 61 51 57 50 682

2005 60 44 59 65 63 61 51 55 49 (D) (D) 38 (D)

2006 48 40 53 49 49 51 46 50 46 47 41 44 565

2007 2/ 38 44 54 52 57 60 58 59 53 66 38

Shipments

2003 44 30 61 60 66 63 62 70 60 56 54 54 680

2004 58 43 53 58 60 56 57 60 58 52 57 51 664

2005 61 48 53 60 65 61 51 51 49 (D) (D) 40 (D)

2006 48 35 57 51 46 48 42 55 48 44 43 47 561

2007 2/ 42 36 45 67 54 61 52 53 62 57 47

Oil mill stocks

2003 8 9 10 15 13 16 15 14 10 17 16 11 -

2004 9 9 14 12 11 15 13 12 14 13 13 12 -

2005 11 6 13 18 13 13 13 17 18 18 11 9 -

2006 9 14 11 9 12 15 18 13 12 16 14 11 -

2007 2/ 7 14 28 13 16 15 21 21 12 21 12

1/ Reported in running bale equivalents. 2/ Preliminary. (D) Withheld to avoid disclosing individual oil mills.

 U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

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Vol. 78, No. 12 July 2008 

Production of cotton linters by United States oil mills totaled 38,000 running bales equivalents during June, 

according to the Bureau of the Census. This was down from 41,000 bales produced last year. Shipments of 

cotton linters from oil mills totaled 47,000 in June. This compared with 43,000 bales shipped last year. Oil 

mill stocks totaled 12,000 running bales compared to 14,000 last year. 

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Table 3. U.S. Exports of raw cotton linter fiber, by months, 2003-2007

Season 

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

August 1 total 1/

 Metric tons 2/

2003 1,190 2,770 2,754 5,126 5,774 6,550 3,948 6,880 3,604 1,797 1,913 2,596 44,902

2004 1,929 1,358 3,934 2,585 3,786 1,646 1,217 1,710 1,161 2,760 1,493 440 24,019

2005 530 948 2,147 310 1,258 1,108 2,043 3,279 4,531 3,768 2,186 1,066 23,174

2006 1,757 967 1,131 1,190 964 0 366 3,943 1,511 1,683 2,824 3,183 19,519

2007 3,428 738 1,206 594 240 639 1,872 1,503 1,803 393 418

1/ The sum of monthly figures may not equal the season total due to rounding. 2/ 1 metric ton = U.S. equivalent 2,204.6 pounds.

Season

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

August 1

1,000 tons

2003 98 236 705 738 502 178 72 74 60 13 -3 40 2,713 

2004 120 251 758 717 502 381 234 99 6 4 -2 16 3,084 

2005 154 243 838 874 509 309 146 148 -132 -9 -9 -35 3,036 

2006 36 319 753 750 411 165 65 32 7 9 25 39 2,611 

2007 1/ 39 23 772 761 462 279 214 62 14 -13 -29

Crushings

2003 139 99 252 255 252 265 242 278 217 240 218 182 2,639

2004 194 141 248 260 263 283 266 270 288 221 267 222 2,923

2005 241 170 272 289 297 291 245 277 235 280 227 203 3,028

2006 205 158 252 223 237 251 222 249 231 243 205 203 2,679

2007 1/ 173 166 242 241 252 276 264 235 245 235 192

2003 306 443 896 1,379 1,630 1,543 1,372 1,168 1,011 784 563 421 -

2004 347 457 967 1,424 1,661 1,769 1,736 1,565 1,284 1,066 797 592 -

2005 505 578 1,144 1,729 1,941 1,959 1,859 1,733 1,366 1,077 840 602 -

2006 433 564 1,058 1,585 1,760 1,675 1,517 1,300 1,052 817 638 489 -

2007 1/ 361 416 979 1,499 1,710 1,713 1,671 1,498 1,306 1,059 838

1/ Preliminary.

Source: U. S. Bureau of the Census report M311J.

Receipts

Table 2. Receipts, crushings and stocks of cottonseed at oil mills, by months, United States, 2003-2007

Stocks

2

Cottonseed receipts at oil totaled 2,584,000 tons through June this season compared with 2,572,000 a year 

earlier and 3,071,000 tons in June 2006. Oil mills crushed 192,000 tons of cottonseed during June, 

compared with 205,000 in the previous year and 227,000 two years ago. Oil mills had 838,000 tons of 

cottonseed on hand at the end of June compared to 638,000 tons a year ago and 840,000 at the end of June 

2006. 

Exports of raw cotton linters in the United States totaled 418,000 metric tons during June, compared to 2,824 

tons last year and 2,186 tons two years ago.