Cotton
Ginnings
 
National
Agricultural
Statistics
Service
 
USDA
Washington, D.C.
 
Released December 11, 1997, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service
(NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, U.S. Department of Agriculture.  For
information on "Cotton Ginnings" call Roger Latham at (202) 720-5944, office
hours 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.
 
Cotton Ginnings:  Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) Prior to
December 1, by Crop, State, and United States, Crop Years 1994-1997
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      Crop      :                 Running Bales Ginned
      and       : --------------------------------------------------------------
     State      :      1994     :      1995     :      1996     :      1997
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                :
All Cotton      :
    AL          :       531,900         375,100         636,750         406,650
    AZ          :       649,550         523,250         539,950         549,350
    AR          :     1,686,600       1,429,200       1,536,350       1,544,200
    CA          :     2,102,800       1,766,900       1,915,550       2,157,500
    FL 1/       :                        77,400          99,450          85,000
    GA          :       800,450       1,403,150       1,613,650       1,234,950
    LA          :     1,471,850       1,350,250       1,278,700         995,650
    MS          :     2,013,900       1,794,800       1,803,000       1,709,750
    MO          :       536,500         456,000         529,550         509,200
    NM          :        54,050          50,350          67,500          58,150
    NC          :       549,750         598,600         743,700         657,450
    OK          :       181,800          89,700          60,900         141,750
    SC          :       260,100         272,200         381,800         303,200
    TN          :       809,300         681,600         644,200         622,350
    TX          :     3,811,050       3,239,700       2,664,750       3,675,850
    VA 1/       :                        90,850         107,100          95,200
    US          :    15,587,300      14,199,050      14,622,900      14,746,200
                :
Amer-Pima       :
    AZ          :        57,400          37,600          52,000          32,050
    CA          :       107,300          94,800         158,200         264,550
    NM  1/      :        12,150                          10,100           7,750
    TX  1/      :        36,400                          37,050          33,850
    US          :       213,250         175,800         257,350         338,200
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1/  Not published to avoid disclosing individual gins.
 
 
                    Bureau of the Census Cotton Information
 
Cotton consumed during the month ending October 31, 1997, amounted to
872,086 bales.  Cotton on hand in consuming establishments at the end of
October was 535,165 bales, and the total in public storage and in compresses
was 6,536,639 bales.  Active consuming cotton spindles totaled 2,635,000, and
the quantity of domestic cotton exported, excluding linters, was 301,800
bales.
These and other data were published in "Census Bulletin M22P(97)-10", dated
November 21, 1997.
 
 
Ct Gn 1 (12-97)
The next "Cotton Ginnings" report will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET on January
9, 1998.
 
 
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