HDR1012000170170926951500Cotton Ginnings                                        
HDR2012000170170926951500Cotton Ginnings Narrative & Tables                     
                                                                                
Released September 26, 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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Information Hotline at 1-800-727-9540 or E-mail:  NASS@AG.GOV.   Estimates are  
cotton ginned prior to September 15.                                            
                                                                                
    Cotton Ginnings:  Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) Prior to         
    September 15, by Crop, State, and United States, Crop Years 1992-1995       
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     Crop        :                     Running Bales Ginned                     
      and        : -----------------------------------------------------------  
     State       :       1992     :     1993     :    1994     :    1995        
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                 :                                                              
All Cotton       :                                                              
    AL  1/       :                       4,200                       7,700      
    AZ           :       28,900         12,300         7,700        11,100      
    AR           :          850          4,100         5,450         4,900      
    CA  1/       :       11,050         10,450         3,050                    
    FL  1/       :            0                            0                    
    GA  1/       :                       3,100           300        41,750      
    LA           :       29,600         16,250        28,550        50,100      
    MS           :       12,600          5,800        11,600        84,150      
    MO           :            0          1,950         1,700             0      
    NM           :            0              0             0             0      
    NC  1/       :            0          1,050             0                    
    OK           :            0              0         1,000             0      
    SC  1/       :            0          3,050                                  
    TN  1/       :           50          2,400           550                    
    TX           :      656,900        682,000       882,450       693,750      
    VA  1/       :            0                            0             0      
    US           :      740,200        747,550       943,200       897,500      
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1/  Not published to avoid disclosing individual gins.                          
                                                                                
Ct Gn 1 (9-95)                                                                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
Estimates are for All Cotton ginned prior to September 1, 1995.  Preliminary    
estimates were released September 11, 1995.                                     
                                                                                
              Cotton Ginnings:  Running Bales Ginned by County,                 
                      District, State and United States                         
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          State/        :   Running    ::          State/        :   Running    
         County/        :    Bales     ::         County/        :    Bales     
        District        :   Ginned     ::        District        :   Ginned     
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                        :              ::                        :              
United States           :      433,000 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 Texas                  :              :: Texas (Cont'd)         :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 Falls               1/ :              ::                        :              
 Hill                1/ :              :: District 90            :      114,550 
 Mclennan            1/ :              ::                        :              
 Milam                  :        4,600 :: Zavala              1/ :              
 Williamson             :        4,900 ::                        :              
                        :              :: District 96         2/ :              
 District 40            :       11,000 ::                        :              
                        :              :: Cameron                :       14,700 
 Brazos              1/ :              :: Hidalgo                :       27,700 
 Robertson              :        3,350 :: Starr               1/ :              
                        :              :: Willacy                :        7,550 
 District 52         3/ :        3,350 ::                        :              
                        :              :: District 97         3/ :       49,950 
 Uvalde              1/ :              ::                        :              
                        :              :: TX  Total              :      433,000 
 District 70         2/ :              ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 Burleson            1/ :              ::                        :              
 Caldwell            1/ :              ::                        :              
 Medina              1/ :              ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 District 81            :        6,300 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 Kleberg             1/ :              ::                        :              
 Nueces                 :       68,200 ::                        :              
 Refugio             1/ :              ::                        :              
 San Patricio           :      135,300 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 District 82            :      232,400 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 Brazoria            1/ :              ::                        :              
 Calhoun             1/ :              ::                        :              
 Fort Bend              :       22,950 ::                        :              
 Jackson             1/ :              ::                        :              
 Matagorda           1/ :              ::                        :              
 Wharton                :       51,500 ::                        :              
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1/  Withheld to avoid disclosing individual gins.                               
2/  Withheld to avoid disclosing individual gins, but included in State total.  
3/  Excludes some gins' data to avoid disclosing individual gins, but included  
    in State total.                                                             
                                                                                
                                                                                
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