HDR1012000170170927960830COTTON GINNINGS                                        
Cotton                                                                          
Ginnings                                                                        
                                                                                
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Released September 27, 1996, 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) 720-9540, office    
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Information Hotline at 1-800-727-9540 or E-mail: NASS@NASS.USDA.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 1993-1996      
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      Crop      :                    Running Bales Ginned                       
       and      : --------------------------------------------------------------
     State      :      1993     :      1994     :      1995     :      1996     
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                :                                                               
All Cotton      :                                                               
    AL 1/       :         4,200                           7,700                 
    AZ          :        12,300           7,700          11,100          20,950 
    AR          :         4,100           5,450           4,900          29,500 
    CA 1/       :        10,450           3,050                           6,550 
    FL 1/       :                             0                                 
    GA          :         3,100             300          41,750          33,550 
    LA          :        16,250          28,550          50,100          27,400 
    MS          :         5,800          11,600          84,150          77,300 
    MO          :         1,950           1,700               0           3,850 
    NM          :             0               0               0               0 
    NC 1/       :         1,050               0                               0 
    OK          :             0           1,000               0               0 
    SC 1/       :         3,050                                           4,650 
    TN 1/       :         2,400             550                          14,950 
    TX          :       682,000         882,450         693,750         414,200 
    VA 1/       :                             0               0               0 
    US          :       747,550         943,200         897,500         637,250 
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1/  Not published to avoid disclosing individual gins.                          
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
Ct Gn 1 (9-96)                                                                  
  Estimates for All Cotton ginned prior to September 1, 1996.  Preliminary      
  estimates were released September 11, 1996.                                   
                                                                                
               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          :      342,400 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 Texas                  :              :: Texas (Cont'd)         :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 Falls               1/ :              :: Zavala              1/ :              
 Hill                1/ :              ::                        :              
 Mclennan            1/ :              :: District 96         2/ :              
 Milam               1/ :              ::                        :              
 Williamson             :          800 :: Cameron                :       47,950 
                        :              :: Hidalgo                :       32,650 
 District 40            :        2,750 :: Starr               1/ :              
                        :              :: Willacy                :       78,650 
 Brazos              1/ :              ::                        :              
 Robertson           1/ :              :: District 97         3/ :      159,250 
 Walker              1/ :              ::                        :              
                        :              :: TX  Total              :      342,400 
 District 52            :          400 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 Burleson            1/ :              ::                        :              
 Caldwell            1/ :              ::                        :              
 Medina              1/ :              ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 District 81            :          400 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 Kleberg             1/ :              ::                        :              
 Nueces                 :       41,800 ::                        :              
 Refugio             1/ :              ::                        :              
 San Patricio           :       52,650 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 District 82            :      119,650 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 Brazoria               :        2,850 ::                        :              
 Calhoun             1/ :              ::                        :              
 Fort Bend              :        6,400 ::                        :              
 Jackson             1/ :              ::                        :              
 Matagorda           1/ :              ::                        :              
 Wharton                :       33,800 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
 District 90            :       56,050 ::                        :              
                        :              ::                        :              
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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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