HDR1012000170170912970830Cotton Ginnings                                        
                                                                                
Cotton                                                                          
Ginnings                                                                        
                                                                                
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Released September 12, 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.   Estimates are cotton ginned           
 prior to September 1.                                                          
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
     Cotton Ginnings:  Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) Prior to        
      September 1 by Crop, State, and United States, Crop Years 1994-97         
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  Crop      :                     Running Bales Ginned                          
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  State     :    1994       :    1995       :    1996        :    1997          
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 Upland     :                                                                   
 Cotton     :                                                                   
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  TX        :  679,950          433,000         342,400          365,900        
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  US        :  679,950          433,000         342,400          365,900        
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The next "Cotton Ginnings" report will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET on           
September 25, 1997.                                                             
                                                                                
                                                                                
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Ct Gn 1 (9-97)                                                                  
              Bureau of the Census Cotton Information                           
                                                                                
Cotton consumed during the month ending July 31, 1997, amounted to              
773,802 bales.  Cotton on hand in consuming establishments at the end of July   
was 677,427 bales, and the total in public storage and in compresses was        
2,959,776 bales.  Active consuming cotton spindles was 2,577,000, and the       
quantity of domestic cotton exported, excluding linters, was 625,500 bales.     
These and other data were published in "Census Bulletin M22P(97)-07", dated     
August 21, 1997.                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
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