HDR1012000170171010951500Cotton Ginnings                                        
HDR2012000170171010951500Cotton Ginnings Tables & Narrative                     
                                                                                
Released October 10, 1995, 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    
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are cotton ginned prior to October 1.                                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
       Cotton Ginnings:  Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) Prior to      
       October 1, by Crop, State, and United States, Crop Years 1992-1995       
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   Crop   :                        Running Bales Ginned                         
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  State   :      1992      :       1993      :     1994     :      1995         
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          :                                                                     
All Cotton:                                                                     
    AL    :      9,500             45,000           21,450         64,600       
    AZ    :    105,550             74,800           47,200         36,000       
    AR    :     51,300             95,000          226,300        153,250       
    CA    :     96,900             35,000           27,400         25,350       
    FL 1/ :                                                                     
    GA    :     11,300             70,950           22,250        184,850       
    LA    :    294,850            218,550          328,100        354,450       
    MS    :    221,000            175,950          326,750        564,000       
    MO    :      5,650             32,550           67,100         12,850       
    NM 1/ :                         5,400            2,400              0       
    NC 1/ :                        47,150           14,350         23,000       
    OK 1/ :                         6,800           31,200              0       
    SC    :      3,900             34,800           15,050         15,850       
    TN    :     19,400             67,600           84,300         69,000       
    TX    :    842,350            928,050        1,106,400        939,550       
    VA 1/ :          0                                                          
    US    :  1,664,150          1,845,950        2,324,000      2,455,400       
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Amer-Pima :                                                                     
    AZ 1/ :                                                                     
    CA 1/ :                                              0                      
    NM 1/ :                                                                     
    TX 1/ :      2,150              2,650                                       
Oth Sts   :          0              1,700                0                      
    US    :      5,750              4,350            1,800          1,800       
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1/  Not published to avoid disclosing individual gins.                          
                                                                                
                                                                                
Ct Gn 1 (10-95)                                                                 
                                                                                
                                                                                
                     Bureau of the Census Cotton Information                    
                                                                                
Cotton consumed during the month ending August 31, 1995, amounted to            
831,397 bales.  Cotton on hand in consuming establishments at the end of August 
was 624,783 bales, and the total in public storage and compresses was           
1,202,572 bales.  Active consuming cotton spindles totaled 2,777,000, and the   
quantity of domestic cotton exported, excluding linters, was 251,100 bales.     
These and other data were published in "Census Bulletin M22P(95)-8", dated      
September 21, 1995.                                                             
                                                                                
                                                                                
The next "Cotton Ginnings" report will be released at 3 p.m. ET on              
October 25, 1995.                                                               
                                                                                
                                                                                
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