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Vol. 51 No. 5 

December 2011 

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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Long Staple Cotton Review 

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CCC-loan entries of 2011-crop totaled 236,173 running bales through December 31, 

2011. Repayments have been made on 127,276 bales. Loans remain outstanding on 

108,897 bales, of which 20,560 bales were Form A and 88,337 bales were Form G. 

January 19, 2012 

The Market News Division will discontinue the Monthly Long Staple Cotton Review publication 

effective with the December 2011 issue, Vol. 51, No. 5. Future information can be found in the 

reports and links listed below: 

 Table 1 Bureau of the Census (Discontinued) 

 Table 2 Farm Service Agency - http://www.fsa.usda.gov/ 

 Table 3 Weekly Cotton Market Review 

 Table 4 Supima - http://www.supima.com/

 Table 5 Weekly Cotton Market Review 

 American Pima Spot Quotations Monthly Cotton Price Statistics 

A N N O U N C E M E N T 

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 5,187 5,187 427 4,760 4,760

California 26,563 182,338 208,901 6,003 116,480 20,560 65,858 86,418

New Mexico 3,935 3,935 441 3,494 3,494

Texas 18,150 18,150 3,925 14,225 14,225

Total 26,563 209,610 236,173 6,003 121,273 20,560 88,337 108,897

Reprint of table from USDA, Farm Service Agency.

Table 2. Loans made, repaid and outstanding on 2011-ELS cotton in Commodity Credit Corporation

cotton loan program through December 31, 2011

Loans outstanding

Running bales Running bales Running bales Running bales

Table 1. American Pima: Stocks in Public Storage, running bales, by months and seasons, 2005-2011

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

 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 110,473 126,206 172,159 309,499 430,465 465,930 445,911 414,239 395,661 366,473 340,667 261,510 -

 2009 237,353 230,103 265,839 379,448 339,332 289,774 255,726 116,543 74,350 46,275 26,393 14,798 -

 2010 7,747 4,959 9,003 140,918 242,431 254,487 192,097 140,476 94,932 61,324 48,579 41,226

 2011 * * ****

1/ Stocks at end of reporting period. * Discontinuation of data from Bureau of the Census.

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/
Exports of American Pima cotton from the United States totaled 110,800 running bales during December this 

season, according to the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), USDA. Exporters shipped 107,500 bales last 

year and 135,900 bales two years earlier. 

 

Table 3. American Pima: Exports by month, running bales, 2006-2011 1/

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

 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 51,900 25,500 52,200 99,900 135,900 83,700 50,500 47,700 49,700 17,400 16,000 8,000 638,400

 2010 4,600 2,400 5,400 21,100 107,500 93,600 63,400 91,200 30,400 22,900 27,500 10,400 480,400

 2011 2/ 5,800 4,900 2,600 33,000 110,800

1/ These data refer to a particular day near the end of the month. 2/ Preliminary.

Source: Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA

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Production Ginnings Average

 480 lb. Running Farm loan

Planted Harvested bales bales Price rate 2/

Pounds 1,000 bales Cents Cents Cents

American Pima

326.0 323.5 765.4 737.2 94.3 96.79 80.70

292.2 288.1 851.8 823.3 98.8 88.09 80.80

174.0 168.7 430.8 413.2 99.0 99.86 80.75

141.4 138.2 399.9 384.9 117.0 103.06 80.72

204.2 201.7 504.1 483.5 180.0 99.86 80.74

 2011 3/ 306.4 303.9 1,336 845.7 80.70

2008

2009 1,389

2010 1,200

1,226

All prices represent cents per pound. 1/ 2006 and later net weight, in mixed lots, mike 35 and above, UD free, FOB warehouse. 2/ Net weight, mike 35 and above. 3/ Preliminary.

1,419

Acreage

2007

2006 1,136

Table 5. American Pima: Acreage, production, quotations and prices, by seasons, 2006-2011

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

6.3 0.2 2.6 0.7 0.7

16.8 14.5 12.7 20.4 12.6

10.6 2.1 5.4 6.2 2.7

8.6 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0

8.9 2.2 0.0 0.3 3.2

16.5 8.2 4.8 4.2 10.6

4.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

72.1 27.3 25.5 31.8 29.8

13.7 9.0 9.6 8.7 4.9

176.4 57.5 320.5 188.9 154.2

146.7 27.2 125.3 72.3 68.6

68.0 20.3 22.9 38.7 22.3

53.3 14.8 24.7 42.7 18.2

22.5 4.7 12.6 18.0 17.9

159.0 26.8 69.7 47.9 58.2

29.8 2.9 10.9 11.8 3.0

24.1 8.8 18.6 16.3 8.1

18.4 17.1 1.9 1.7 0.0

711.9 189.1 616.7 447.0 355.4

 

5.3 2.0 0.9 0.7 0.1

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

0.1 0.8 0.0 0.2 0.1

0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.2

0.3 1.2 3.3 2.7 1.2

28.2 2.4 14.9 33.4 27.2

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

33.9 6.6 19.5 37.6 28.8

 

14.6 3.8 18.4 7.4 8.8

832.5 226.8 680.1 523.8 422.6

Listed in thousand 480-lb. bales for 2007-2010. *2011-12 sales listed in running bales through January 5, 2012

Source: USDA-FAS U.S. Export Sales -January 12, 2012

Reprint of table from Supima web site.

Mexico

Peru

Honduras

World Totals

Salvador

Venezuela

W. Hemisphere Totals

Rest of World

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Ecuador

Guatemala

Korean Republic

Pakistan

Taiwan

Thailand

Other

Asia Totals

Bangladesh

China

India

Indonesia

Japan

Italy

Portugal

Switzerland

Turkey

Other

Europe Totals

 Table 4. American Pima Exports Sales and Commitments

Country 2010-2011 2011-2012*

Belgium

Germany

2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 
 

Leaf

44 46 48

1 171.50 176.50 176.75

2 171.25 176.25 176.50

3 163.25 168.25 168.50

4

5

6

1 171.25 176.25 176.50

2 171.00 176.00 176.25

3 163.00 168.00 168.25

4 153.00 158.50 158.75

5

6

1 161.00 166.00 166.25

2 158.50 163.50 163.75

3 158.00 163.00 163.25

4 149.00 154.00 154.25

5 133.00 137.50 137.75

6

1 143.00 148.00 149.00

2 142.75 147.75 148.25

3 142.50 147.50 147.50

4 137.50 142.50 142.50

5 126.25 131.25 131.25

6

1

2 122.00 129.25 129.25

3 122.00 128.75 129.25

4 122.00 123.25 123.25

5 121.75 123.00 123.00

6

1

2 114.25 114.50 114.50

3 114.25 114.50 114.50

4 114.25 114.50 114.50

5 114.00 114.25 114.25

6 113.50 113.75 113.75

Strength

27-29

26 & Below -2000

Range Diff.

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

Color Staple

-1500

36.5-37.4 -550

3

Mike

2

30-32 -1000

33-34 -550

35 & Above 0

AMERICAN PIMA SPOT QUOTATIONS 

1

4

35.5-36.4 -800

5 37.5 and Above 0

(Grams per Tex)

Range Diff.

35.4 and Below -1050

2 -1095

6 Prep

Extraneous Matter

Level Diff.

1 -810

Other

1 -715

2 -1035

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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