HDR1012000170170512970830Cotton Ginnings National May 1997 Agricultural Statistics Service Washington, D.C. Ct Gn 1 (97) Cotton Ginnings 1996 Summary Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, State, and United States, Crop Years 1993-96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : : State : 1993 : 1994 : 1995 : 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 440,950 687,850 460,650 755,850 AZ : 816,750 821,650 831,750 812,850 AR : 1,101,500 1,766,950 1,452,900 1,593,150 CA : 3,063,300 2,821,200 2,462,350 2,687,550 FL 1/ : 96,650 GA : 703,400 1,500,900 1,908,900 2,041,500 KS 1/ 2/ : 0 LA : 1,106,300 1,513,100 1,378,550 1,299,450 MS : 1,510,050 2,083,350 1,806,850 1,819,250 MO : 336,000 555,350 477,400 557,250 NM : 72,950 68,250 69,700 89,600 NC : 417,100 806,150 787,950 985,100 OK : 257,100 232,400 117,250 126,100 SC : 196,350 370,000 351,900 434,000 TN : 529,200 863,250 713,150 664,100 TX : 4,996,900 4,845,700 4,413,500 4,294,450 VA 1/ : 128,250 153,000 : US : 15,675,070 19,127,300 17,468,500 18,438,550 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 84,550 78,150 70,750 72,450 CA : 206,700 178,300 215,050 360,200 NM : 12,850 14,100 13,900 14,450 TX : 52,500 56,100 54,950 62,900 : Other : States : 270 0 0 0 : US : 356,870 326,650 354,650 510,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Not published to avoid disclosing individual gins, but included in the U.S. totals. 2/ No gins operated in 1994 season. Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Produced and Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, by Type, State, and United States, Crop Years 1995-96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : Equivalent 480-Pound Type : Running Bales Produced : Bales Ginned and :-------------------------------------------------------------- State : 1995 : 1996 : 1995 : 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 475,350 762,150 476,000 781,700 AZ : 843,500 827,000 852,700 837,000 AR : 1,449,050 1,607,000 1,471,450 1,621,350 CA : 2,449,450 2,673,350 2,550,050 2,778,400 FL 1/ : 103,600 125,400 GA : 1,887,850 2,017,850 1,961,800 2,102,850 KS 1/ : 950 4,100 LA : 1,358,450 1,263,500 1,394,700 1,322,150 MS : 1,800,750 1,827,500 1,846,000 1,866,450 MO : 505,550 581,500 484,150 565,500 NM : 89,400 102,150 70,000 89,900 NC : 775,050 973,700 810,950 1,013,700 OK : 118,950 130,950 120,450 127,650 SC : 370,600 447,450 356,400 440,800 TN : 712,950 661,350 724,000 677,400 TX : 4,392,900 4,277,050 4,529,500 4,418,550 VA : 134,150 156,550 130,750 155,250 : US : 17,468,500 18,438,550 17,890,000 18,928,550 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 70,300 72,000 72,650 74,800 CA : 215,450 360,650 224,100 374,150 NM : 18,500 18,700 14,150 14,650 TX : 50,400 58,650 56,550 64,400 : US : 354,650 510,000 367,450 528,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Not published to avoid disclosing individual gins, but included in the U.S. totals. Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : October 1 : October 15 : November 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 59,550 174,950 358,200 AZ : 50,400 123,300 257,550 AR : 253,250 718,450 1,191,600 CA : 26,850 223,800 828,850 FL : 6,500 14,150 43,750 GA : 198,600 346,300 802,200 LA : 269,250 642,000 1,042,750 MS : 480,500 1,027,450 1,562,650 MO : 47,950 177,400 355,700 NM : 2,450 12,950 31,250 NC : 21,550 118,150 338,600 OK 1/ : 28,800 SC : 61,800 132,050 243,650 TN : 148,400 350,050 525,900 TX : 517,750 702,850 1,216,400 VA 1/ : 40,850 : US : 2,145,650 4,779,500 8,868,700 : Amer-Pima : AZ 1/ : 7,050 19,550 CA 1/ : 10,700 59,400 NM 1/ : 3,100 TX 1/ : 14,800 : US 1/ : 20,500 96,850 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : November 15 : December 1 : December 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 500,500 636,750 712,100 AZ : 397,050 539,950 666,350 AR : 1,418,050 1,536,350 1,570,100 CA : 1,394,700 1,915,550 2,302,800 FL : 70,500 99,450 114,050 GA : 1,198,350 1,613,650 1,873,250 LA : 1,206,750 1,278,700 1,291,750 MS : 1,754,500 1,803,000 1,813,600 MO : 469,950 529,550 551,900 NM : 50,200 67,500 80,350 NC : 537,200 743,700 886,000 OK : 47,400 60,900 85,350 SC : 321,800 381,800 416,900 TN : 611,650 644,200 658,200 TX : 1,864,450 2,664,750 3,373,750 VA : 63,250 107,100 131,300 : US : 11,906,300 14,622,900 16,527,750 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 37,050 52,000 62,200 CA : 104,700 158,200 208,000 NM : 6,550 10,100 13,300 TX : 27,150 37,050 44,000 : US : 175,450 257,350 327,500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : January 1 : January 15 : February 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 740,500 746,850 753,850 AZ : 748,600 783,250 805,050 AR : 1,588,500 1,590,800 1,591,800 CA : 2,507,300 2,570,350 2,624,750 FL : 118,150 119,000 119,450 GA : 1,996,250 2,027,000 2,038,850 KS : 0 0 0 LA : 1,297,650 1,298,400 1,298,400 MS : 1,815,150 1,815,900 1,816,100 MO : 555,600 555,650 555,850 NM : 84,450 86,650 89,600 NC : 939,750 966,900 972,100 OK : 112,550 119,850 124,950 SC : 427,800 431,450 433,000 TN : 661,850 662,050 663,450 TX : 3,936,500 4,175,150 4,267,800 VA : 150,300 151,700 152,950 : US : 17,680,900 18,100,950 18,307,950 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 68,400 70,650 71,550 CA : 246,400 282,750 325,750 NM : 14,400 14,400 14,450 TX : 52,550 57,700 62,900 : US : 381,750 425,500 474,650 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Not published to avoid disclosing individual gins, but included in U.S. totals. Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : : Autauga 1/: 10,750 Baldwin 1/: 26,800 Barbour : 0 0 12,650 Blount 1/: 1,200 Bullock : 0 0 800 Butler : 0 0 650 Calhoun : 0 0 1,900 Chambers : 0 0 450 Cherokee 1/: 31,050 Chilton 1/: 1,200 Choctaw : 0 0 1,050 Clarke 1/: 0 0 Clay 1/: 0 0 Coffee 1/: 17,300 Colbert 1/: 24,650 Conecuh : 0 0 3,150 Covington 1/: 18,300 Crenshaw 1/: 2,650 Cullman : 0 0 1,700 Dale : 0 0 6,250 Dallas 1/: 12,600 Dekalb 1/: 0 0 Elmore : 24,250 24,950 12,850 Escambia 1/: 47,800 Etowah : 0 0 2,700 Fayette 1/: 3,200 Franklin : 0 0 600 Geneva 1/: 17,250 Greene 1/: Hale : 0 0 1,350 Henry 1/: 25,100 Houston 1/: 29,000 Jackson : 0 0 750 Lamar : 0 0 850 Lauderdale 1/: 31,650 Lawrence : 76,400 80,100 55,600 Lee : 0 0 3,300 Limestone : 116,650 121,550 98,050 Lowndes 1/: 800 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Macon 1/: 7,400 Madison : 40,500 40,750 60,050 Marengo 1/: 5,650 Marion : 0 0 600 Marshall : 0 0 950 Mobile 1/: 21,600 Monroe 1/: 46,700 Montgomery : 0 0 1,750 Morgan : 0 0 800 Pickens 1/: 2,400 Pike : 0 0 7,800 Russell 1/: 9,200 Shelby : 0 0 5,500 Talladega : 0 0 900 Tallapoosa 1/: 1,950 Tuscaloosa 1/: 5,800 Washington : 0 0 2,250 Wilcox : 0 0 3,650 Winston 1/: 0 0 Oth 2/: 70,550 : Alabama : 755,850 781,700 762,150 : Cochise 1/: 14,800 Graham 1/: 39,550 Greenlee : 0 0 2,300 La Paz 1/: 61,250 Maricopa : 329,200 336,950 294,550 Mohave 1/: 13,400 Pima 1/: 30,450 Pinal : 273,600 282,150 307,850 Yuma : 67,000 69,600 62,900 : Arizona : 812,850 837,000 827,000 : Arkansas : 0 0 1,400 Ashley : 100,650 101,600 107,800 Calhoun 1/: 0 0 Chicot 1/: 70,700 Clay : 30,150 30,500 41,700 Craighead : 163,150 166,800 141,850 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Crittenden : 91,950 92,800 82,700 Cross 1/: Desha : 198,850 200,900 182,900 Drew 1/: 29,950 Greene : 26,150 26,550 32,350 Jefferson : 126,250 128,600 113,650 Lafayette 1/: 6,650 Lee 1/: 43,600 Lincoln 1/: 57,350 Lonoke : 57,450 58,450 51,000 Miller 1/: 1,800 Mississippi : 353,500 359,600 354,750 Monroe 1/: 34,300 Phillips : 128,500 131,100 108,950 Poinsett : 109,200 110,850 98,350 Prairie 1/: 2,300 Pulaski : 0 0 1,850 Saint Franci : 40,550 42,000 31,200 Woodruff 1/: 8,850 : Arkansas : 1,593,150 1,621,350 1,607,000 : Butte 1/: 0 0 Colusa 1/: 6,550 Fresno : 966,350 1,002,200 987,750 Glenn : 0 0 1,400 Imperial 1/: 15,800 Kern : 601,000 619,300 633,900 Kings : 507,800 524,950 499,850 Madera 1/: 75,350 Merced : 183,700 189,100 213,250 Riverside 1/: 28,350 San Bernardi : 0 0 1,950 Sutter 1/: Tehama 1/: 0 0 Tulare : 246,000 254,000 204,550 Yolo : 0 0 3,400 : California : 2,687,550 2,778,400 2,673,350 : Alachua : 0 0 1,800 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Calhoun : 0 0 7,350 Columbia 1/: 0 0 Dixie 1/: 0 0 Escambia 1/: 16,850 Flagler 1/: 0 0 Gadsen 1/: 0 0 Gilchrist 1/: 0 0 Hamilton : 0 0 3,700 Holmes 1/: 0 0 Jackson 1/: 27,450 Jefferson : 0 0 2,450 Levy 1/: 0 0 Madison : 0 0 1,800 Marion 1/: 0 0 Okaloosa : 0 0 5,300 Putnam 1/: 0 0 Santa Rosa 1/: 23,800 St. Johns 1/: 0 0 Suwannee : 0 0 2,600 Walton : 0 0 1,850 Washington : 0 0 1,200 Oth 2/: 0 0 25,800 : Florida 1/: 125,400 : Appling 1/: 43,650 Atkinson : 0 0 18,400 Bacon : 0 0 10,050 Baker : 0 0 22,600 Baldwin 1/: 0 0 Bartow 1/: 2,950 Ben Hill : 0 0 10,750 Berrien 1/: 34,750 Bibb 1/: 0 0 Bleckley 1/: 27,250 Blinch 1/: 0 0 Brooks 1/: 55,700 Bryan : 0 0 1,250 Bulloch 1/: 58,900 Burke : 113,750 118,000 68,200 Calhoun 1/: 24,100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Candler 1/: 18,800 Chattooga 1/: 0 0 Clay : 0 0 9,200 Coffee 1/: 55,500 Colquitt : 238,850 245,750 135,600 Cook 1/: 34,000 Crawford 1/: 2,250 Crisp 1/: 48,200 Decatur 1/: 71,150 Dodge 1/: 28,750 Dooly : 197,750 204,650 118,450 Dougherty : 0 0 23,950 Early 1/: 41,800 Echols : 0 0 1,600 Effingham : 0 0 5,200 Elbert 1/: 3,300 Emanuel : 0 0 31,400 Evans : 0 0 5,250 Floyd : 0 0 4,950 Franklin 1/: 0 0 Glascock : 0 0 2,200 Grady : 0 0 42,400 Hart : 0 0 400 Henry : 0 0 550 Houston : 0 0 20,000 Irwin 1/: 35,350 Jeff Davis 1/: 31,750 Jefferson 1/: 27,650 Jenkins : 0 0 17,150 Johnson 1/: 7,000 Lamar : 0 0 2,000 Lanier : 0 0 7,500 Laurens 1/: 19,700 Lee 1/: 34,450 Liberty 1/: 0 0 Long : 0 0 700 Lowndes 1/: 13,850 Macon : 0 0 28,750 Marion 1/: 0 0 McDuffie : 0 0 350 Miller 1/: 34,850 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Mitchell 1/: 84,100 Monroe : 0 0 900 Montgomery : 0 0 3,200 Morgan 1/: 1,950 Oconee : 0 0 600 Peach : 0 0 6,800 Pierce : 0 0 19,300 Pike 1/: 0 0 Polk : 0 0 2,100 Pulaski 1/: 46,250 Quitman : 0 0 2,850 Randolph 1/: 15,250 Richmond : 0 0 1,800 Schley : 0 0 3,800 Screven 1/: 30,100 Seminole 1/: 38,000 Stewart : 0 0 7,200 Sumter 1/: 49,850 Tattnall : 0 0 10,550 Taylor 1/: 11,400 Telfair : 0 0 8,250 Terrell 1/: 27,850 Thomas 1/: 45,550 Tift 1/: 42,050 Toombs : 0 0 10,250 Treutlen : 0 0 4,950 Turner 1/: 39,800 Twiggs : 0 0 5,100 Walton : 0 0 450 Ware : 0 0 5,700 Warren : 0 0 600 Washington : 0 0 8,300 Wayne : 0 0 19,950 Webster : 0 0 7,600 Wheeler : 0 0 3,700 Wilcox 1/: 32,250 Wilkes 1/: 0 0 Wilkinson : 0 0 750 Worth 1/: 72,950 : Georgia : 2,041,500 2,102,850 2,017,850 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Kansas 1/: 4,100 : : Avoyelles 1/: 25,900 Bienville : 0 0 1,050 Bossier : 0 0 4,450 Caddo : 37,000 38,400 30,900 Caldwell : 0 0 14,250 Catahoula : 90,300 92,050 126,000 Claiborne 1/: 0 0 Concordia : 96,200 97,850 87,200 Desoto : 0 0 1,350 East Carroll : 113,350 112,100 89,050 Evangeline : 0 0 1,800 Franklin : 183,700 186,600 165,700 Grant : 0 0 4,300 Madison 1/: 89,150 Morehouse : 141,350 144,950 127,600 Natchitoches 1/: 14,000 Ouachita 1/: 32,250 Pointe Coupe 1/: 11,500 Rapides : 52,600 54,050 42,950 Red River 1/: 6,500 Richland : 219,350 221,550 156,300 Saint Landry : 0 0 10,100 Tensas : 136,350 140,850 151,500 Union 1/: 0 0 Webster : 0 0 600 West Carroll : 94,250 97,350 68,250 West Felicia : 0 0 650 : Louisiana : 1,299,450 1,322,150 1,263,500 : Adams : 0 0 7,150 Alcorn : 0 0 600 Attala : 0 0 9,900 Benton 1/: 1,950 Bolivar : 117,000 121,350 118,800 Calhoun : 44,300 45,150 39,050 Carroll 1/: 26,200 Chickasaw 1/: 15,900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Choctaw : 0 0 1,450 Claiborne : 0 0 4,400 Clay : 0 0 3,850 Coahoma : 174,850 179,250 169,600 Copiah : 0 0 1,400 Covington : 0 0 1,400 Desoto 1/: 22,600 Forrest : 0 0 3,250 Franklin 1/: 0 0 George : 0 0 2,850 Greene : 0 0 1,350 Grenada 1/: 22,100 Hinds 1/: 21,450 Holmes : 102,750 104,250 88,200 Humphreys : 85,200 87,200 96,250 Issaquena 1/: 45,950 Itawamba : 0 0 1,600 Jackson : 0 0 350 Jefferson 1/: 3,550 Lafayette 1/: 9,950 Lawrence : 0 0 1,650 Leake 1/: 3,600 Lee 1/: 8,500 Leflore : 144,950 148,200 124,450 Lowndes : 0 0 7,450 Madison : 34,900 35,450 46,500 Marshall 1/: 8,950 Monroe 1/: 20,100 Montgomery 1/: 11,900 Newton : 0 0 750 Noxubee : 0 0 10,750 Oktibbeha : 0 0 1,050 Panola : 35,300 36,450 38,100 Perry : 0 0 4,250 Pike : 0 0 550 Pontotoc 1/: 6,700 Prentiss 1/: 3,900 Quitman : 69,900 71,350 69,200 Rankin 1/: 10,850 Scott : 0 0 4,800 Sharkey 1/: 73,050 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Smith 1/: 0 0 Sunflower : 156,150 161,050 129,500 Tallahatchie : 111,600 115,500 113,750 Tate 1/: 11,650 Tippah 1/: 650 Tishomingo : 0 0 950 Tunica : 51,100 51,750 67,100 Union 1/: 3,150 Warren 1/: 20,550 Washington : 165,950 170,700 157,400 Webster 1/: 22,600 Winston 1/: 0 0 Yalobusha 1/: 15,500 Yazoo : 130,050 133,600 106,150 : Mississippi : 1,819,250 1,866,450 1,827,500 : Bollinger 1/: 0 0 Butler 1/: 0 0 Dunklin : 207,050 209,950 228,500 Jasper 1/: 0 0 Mississippi : 0 0 3,200 New Madrid : 161,600 164,600 156,800 Pemiscot : 130,700 131,650 117,300 Scott 1/: 13,150 Stoddard 1/: 53,400 Oth 2/: 0 0 8,850 : Missouri : 557,250 565,500 581,500 : Chaves 1/: 18,900 Curry : 0 0 2,200 Dona Ana : 38,950 39,300 42,050 Eddy 1/: 19,800 Hidalgo 1/: 1,150 Lea : 0 0 2,850 Luna 1/: 10,300 Quay 1/: 1,550 Roosevelt : 0 0 2,400 Sierra : 0 0 950 : New Mexico : 89,600 89,900 102,150 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Anson 1/: 7,050 Beaufort 1/: 13,000 Bertie 1/: 51,350 Bladen 1/: 7,900 Brunswick : 0 0 1,000 Cabarrus : 0 0 3,000 Chowan : 0 0 29,250 Cleveland 1/: 3,000 Columbus : 0 0 1,500 Craven 1/: 20,150 Cumberland : 0 0 4,750 Currituck : 0 0 4,950 Duplin 1/: 20,200 Edgecombe 1/: 56,800 Franklin : 0 0 300 Gates 1/: 7,200 Granville : 0 0 900 Greene 1/: 24,150 Guilford 1/: 0 0 Halifax : 89,000 91,400 91,750 Harnett 1/: 13,850 Hertford 1/: 26,750 Hoke 1/: 12,750 Hyde : 0 0 8,050 Iredell : 0 0 1,750 Johnston : 0 0 13,350 Jones 1/: 3,050 Lee : 0 0 700 Lenoir 1/: 26,700 Martin 1/: 45,850 Nash 1/: 28,200 Northampton : 82,100 84,900 78,550 Onslow : 0 0 650 Pamlico : 0 0 500 Pasquotank : 0 0 750 Pender : 0 0 500 Perquimans 1/: 19,150 Pitt 1/: 39,850 Robeson : 42,900 45,700 15,500 Rowan : 0 0 600 Rutherford 1/: 350 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Sampson : 75,600 78,050 34,800 Scotland 1/: 12,950 Stanly 1/: 9,650 Tyrrell : 0 0 1,900 Union : 0 0 9,650 Wake 1/: 0 0 Warren 1/: 0 0 Washington : 0 0 7,200 Wayne 1/: 25,250 Wilson 1/: 27,450 Oth 2/: 0 0 158,750 : North Carolina : 985,100 1,013,700 973,700 : Alfalfa 1/: 0 0 Beckham : 8,050 8,250 5,650 Blaine 1/: 0 0 Bryan 1/: Caddo : 3,550 3,550 2,100 Canadian 1/: 650 Coal 1/: 0 0 Comanche : 0 0 650 Cotton 1/: 900 Custer 1/: 1,200 Garfield : 0 0 500 Grady 1/: Greer : 3,100 3,250 3,500 Harmon : 20,450 20,450 25,450 Hughes 1/: 0 0 Jackson : 53,150 53,600 51,700 Jefferson 1/: 0 0 Kay 1/: 0 0 Kiowa : 8,150 8,250 8,950 Love 1/: 0 0 Mcclain 1/: 1,250 Muskogee 1/: 0 0 Okmulgee : 0 0 300 Pottawatomie : 0 0 300 Roger Mills : 0 0 1,250 Tillman : 15,150 15,650 14,300 Wagoner : 0 0 700 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Washita : 7,850 8,000 9,750 Woods 1/: 0 0 Oth 2/: 0 0 650 : Oklahoma : 126,100 127,650 130,950 : Abbeville : 0 0 1,000 Aiken 1/: 12,200 Allendale 1/: 9,700 Bamberg : 0 0 11,800 Barnwell 1/: 6,600 Calhoun : 74,200 75,350 43,450 Cherokee 1/: 0 0 Chester : 0 0 1,700 Chesterfield : 0 0 1,100 Clarendon : 29,950 30,300 19,700 Colleton : 0 0 700 Darlington : 28,200 28,700 42,300 Dillon 1/: 22,300 Dorchester : 0 0 7,900 Edgefield : 0 0 4,500 Fairfield 1/: 0 0 Florence : 0 0 19,050 Georgetown : 0 0 500 Greenville 1/: 0 0 Hampton 1/: 22,500 Horry : 0 0 1,800 Jasper 1/: 0 0 Kershaw : 0 0 600 Lancaster : 0 0 500 Laurens 1/: 0 0 Lee : 48,250 46,900 41,950 Lexington : 0 0 1,700 Marion : 0 0 4,500 Marlboro : 50,000 51,750 49,700 Newberry 1/: 0 0 Orangeburg : 64,700 65,650 60,250 Richland : 0 0 500 Saluda 1/: 2,350 Sumter : 32,450 33,150 14,600 Williamsburg 1/: 36,550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : York 1/: 4,600 : South Carolina : 434,000 440,800 447,450 : Carroll 1/: 18,900 Chester : 0 0 4,900 Coffee 1/: 0 0 Crockett : 141,600 143,000 107,000 Dyer 1/: 38,800 Fayette : 48,700 50,750 44,000 Franklin : 0 0 3,650 Gibson : 81,700 83,650 63,050 Giles : 0 0 1,150 Hardeman 1/: 19,150 Hardin : 0 0 1,550 Haywood : 174,600 178,250 155,600 Henderson : 0 0 2,100 Henry : 0 0 1,150 Lake 1/: 16,400 Lauderdale : 59,250 60,450 43,600 Lawrence 1/: 0 0 Lincoln 1/: 3,800 Madison 1/: 52,900 Maury : 0 0 850 Mcnairy : 0 0 1,150 Obion : 0 0 5,500 Rutherford : 0 0 2,450 Shelby : 0 0 19,500 Tipton : 64,500 66,600 52,800 Weakley 1/: 0 0 : Tennessee : 664,100 677,400 661,350 : Anderson 1/: 0 0 Andrews : 0 0 6,900 Archer : 0 0 400 Armstrong : 0 0 1,050 Atascosa : 0 0 1,100 Austin : 0 0 2,600 Bailey : 77,200 80,000 65,300 Bastrop 1/: 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Baylor 1/: 3,100 Bee 1/: 0 0 Bell : 0 0 1,600 Bexar : 0 0 750 Borden 1/: 2,650 Bowie 1/: 0 0 Brazoria : 12,200 12,550 9,750 Brazos 1/: 12,250 Briscoe : 50,100 51,700 32,850 Brown 1/: 0 0 Burleson 1/: 22,300 Caldwell 1/: 1,450 Calhoun 1/: 3,900 Callahan 1/: 0 0 Cameron : 48,950 50,250 54,350 Castro : 79,500 80,650 101,800 Childress 1/: 24,150 Clay 1/: Cochran 1/: 55,800 Coke 1/: 0 0 Coleman 1/: 650 Collin 1/: 4,200 Collingswort 1/: 25,100 Colorado 1/: 0 0 Comanche : 0 0 450 Concho 1/: 11,550 Cottle 1/: 12,450 Crosby : 193,950 198,200 201,650 Dawson : 90,000 92,700 99,300 De Witt 1/: 0 0 Deaf Smith 1/: 7,900 Delta : 0 0 1,500 Denton : 0 0 1,050 Dickens 1/: 3,350 Donley 1/: 9,950 Eastland : 0 0 1,100 El Paso 1/: 47,800 Ellis : 18,700 19,350 20,950 Erath 1/: 0 0 Falls 1/: 7,050 Fisher 1/: 24,750 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Floyd : 170,600 178,250 186,650 Foard : 0 0 400 Fort Bend : 49,050 50,200 54,350 Frio : 0 0 850 Gaines : 281,950 292,900 258,900 Garza : 17,950 18,300 23,350 Glasscock 1/: 24,900 Grayson 1/: 0 0 Grimes : 0 0 700 Hale : 323,400 335,400 298,050 Hall : 64,100 66,200 67,200 Hamilton 1/: 0 0 Hardeman 1/: 3,300 Haskell : 47,750 49,450 43,650 Hidalgo : 33,200 33,550 33,750 Hill : 26,400 27,000 39,550 Hockley : 290,650 296,000 227,900 Houston 1/: 1,200 Howard 1/: 9,400 Hudspeth : 0 0 17,550 Hunt 1/: 8,450 Irion 1/: 0 0 Jackson 1/: 22,600 Jim Wells : 0 0 3,150 Johnson : 0 0 450 Jones : 35,800 36,700 29,000 Karnes : 0 0 800 Kaufman 1/: 1,700 Kent 1/: 2,000 King : 0 0 1,050 Kleberg 1/: 24,750 Knox 1/: 32,400 Lamar 1/: 3,000 Lamb : 253,300 264,050 202,350 Lavaca 1/: 0 0 Lee : 0 0 12,200 Leon 1/: 0 0 Limestone : 0 0 1,600 Live Oak : 0 0 3,100 Lubbock : 262,050 269,550 280,800 Lynn : 206,950 213,400 197,350 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Madison : 0 0 350 Martin : 36,600 37,650 21,050 Matagorda 1/: 29,000 Mcculloch 1/: 2,250 Mclennan 1/: 6,800 Medina 1/: 4,600 Midland 1/: 14,300 Milam : 6,100 6,050 7,050 Mitchell : 10,350 10,550 9,150 Motley 1/: 15,950 Navarro 1/: 12,550 Nolan 1/: 9,200 Nueces : 49,050 48,300 55,800 Parmer : 101,700 105,450 120,450 Pecos 1/: 9,800 Rains 1/: 0 0 Reagan : 0 0 19,600 Real : 0 0 750 Red River : 0 0 5,000 Reeves 1/: 11,300 Refugio 1/: 8,950 Robertson : 33,350 34,700 27,650 Rockwall : 0 0 400 Runnels : 28,000 29,000 18,450 San Patricio : 66,550 68,600 48,400 Schleicher : 0 0 550 Scurry : 5,150 5,150 4,650 Shackelford : 0 0 600 Starr 1/: Stonewall : 0 0 2,150 Swisher : 66,400 67,900 86,450 Taylor 1/: 9,700 Terry : 296,950 304,550 316,450 Throckmorton 1/: 1,750 Tom Green : 38,400 39,650 40,000 Travis : 0 0 2,400 Upton 1/: 8,350 Uvalde : 0 0 9,550 Van Zandt : 0 0 450 Victoria : 0 0 4,000 Walker 1/: 500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Wharton : 95,150 96,350 60,100 Wheeler : 0 0 2,650 Wichita 1/: 1,150 Wilbarger : 6,900 6,850 5,900 Willacy : 78,650 80,350 73,150 Williamson : 22,550 23,250 21,000 Wilson : 0 0 700 Yoakum : 149,950 151,750 150,050 Young 1/: 1,500 Zavala 1/: 7,700 Oth 2/: 0 0 1,350 : Texas : 4,294,450 4,418,550 4,277,050 : Accomack 1/: 0 0 Brunswick 1/: 0 0 Charles City 1/: 0 0 Chesapeake c 1/: 0 0 Dinwiddie : 0 0 5,800 Greensville 1/: 11,450 Henrico 1/: 0 0 Isle of Wigh 1/: 20,400 King William 1/: 0 0 King and Que 1/: 0 0 Lancaster 1/: 0 0 New Kent 1/: 0 0 Northampton 1/: 0 0 Northumberla 1/: 0 0 Prince Georg 1/: 0 0 Southampton : 0 0 64,700 Suffolk City 1/: 19,700 Surry : 0 0 7,300 Sussex : 0 0 14,600 Virginia Bea 1/: 0 0 : Virginia : 153,000 155,250 156,550 : US Total : 18,438,550 18,928,550 18,438,550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Withheld to avoid disclosing individual gins, but included in State and U. S. totals. 2/ County of origin was not determined. Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Autauga : 2 510.1 264 Baldwin : 1 482.1 165 Barbour : 0 0.0 248 Blount : 1 510.6 461 Bullock : 0 0.0 497 Butler : 0 0.0 514 Calhoun : 0 0.0 421 Chambers : 0 0.0 547 Cherokee : 4 490.5 146 Chilton : 1 480.0 462 Choctaw : 0 0.0 475 Clarke : 0 0.0 571 Clay : 0 0.0 592 Coffee : 1 497.1 221 Colbert : 2 488.3 177 Conecuh : 0 0.0 377 Covington : 1 499.6 219 Crenshaw : 2 474.0 392 Cullman : 0 0.0 434 Dale : 0 0.0 325 Dallas : 2 496.5 249 Dekalb : 0 0.0 580 Elmore : 3 493.9 246 Escambia : 1 502.5 97 Etowah : 0 0.0 391 Fayette : 1 527.9 374 Franklin : 0 0.0 522 Geneva : 2 490.0 222 Greene : 1 493.1 Hale : 0 0.0 455 Henry : 2 490.1 172 Houston : 2 493.4 152 Jackson : 0 0.0 501 Lamar : 0 0.0 493 Lauderdale : 1 495.2 143 Lawrence : 4 503.3 83 Lee : 0 0.0 370 Limestone : 7 500.1 47 Lowndes : 1 503.2 498 Macon : 1 503.0 306 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Madison : 4 483.1 76 Marengo : 1 473.3 330 Marion : 0 0.0 523 Marshall : 0 0.0 485 Mobile : 1 500.1 192 Monroe : 1 509.2 99 Montgomery : 0 0.0 431 Morgan : 0 0.0 496 Pickens : 1 500.0 400 Pike : 0 0.0 301 Russell : 2 490.1 284 Shelby : 0 0.0 332 Talladega : 0 0.0 488 Tallapoosa : 1 495.2 417 Tuscaloosa : 2 489.8 327 Washington : 0 0.0 406 Wilcox : 0 0.0 363 Winston : 0 0.0 614 : Alabama : 56 496.4 : Cochise : 2 493.1 232 Graham : 4 489.9 122 Greenlee : 0 0.0 404 La Paz : 3 501.4 73 Maricopa : 18 491.3 8 Mohave : 1 501.1 241 Pima : 3 503.6 148 Pinal : 19 495.0 6 Yuma : 4 498.6 72 : Arizona : 54 494.2 : Arkansas : 0 0.0 451 Ashley : 6 484.6 41 Calhoun : 0 0.0 615 Chicot : 5 489.0 63 Clay : 3 485.5 118 Craighead : 8 490.7 28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Crittenden : 4 484.4 56 Cross : 1 504.2 481 Desha : 6 484.9 19 Drew : 1 486.0 150 Greene : 3 487.1 139 Jefferson : 13 488.9 39 Lafayette : 3 497.1 321 Lee : 2 505.2 108 Lincoln : 5 494.4 78 Lonoke : 5 488.2 92 Miller : 1 500.0 425 Mississippi : 14 488.3 4 Monroe : 3 485.4 134 Phillips : 7 489.8 40 Poinsett : 8 487.3 46 Prairie : 1 480.0 405 Pulaski : 0 0.0 423 Saint Franci : 4 497.2 145 Woodruff : 1 503.0 291 : Arkansas : 104 488.5 : Butte : 0 0.0 554 Colusa : 1 500.9 323 Fresno : 40 497.8 1 Glenn : 0 0.0 452 Imperial : 1 489.7 228 Kern : 22 494.6 2 Kings : 14 496.2 3 Madera : 5 497.9 58 Merced : 7 494.1 13 Riverside : 2 492.6 157 San Bernardi : 0 0.0 418 Sutter : 1 500.4 561 Tehama : 0 0.0 532 Tulare : 10 495.6 14 Yolo : 0 0.0 368 : California : 103 496.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Alachua : 0 0.0 427 Calhoun : 0 0.0 307 Columbia : 0 0.0 534 Dixie : 0 0.0 572 Escambia : 1 480.0 224 Flagler : 0 0.0 566 Gadsen : 0 0.0 533 Gilchrist : 0 0.0 539 Hamilton : 0 0.0 361 Holmes : 0 0.0 548 Jackson : 1 493.0 162 Jefferson : 0 0.0 398 Levy : 0 0.0 581 Madison : 0 0.0 426 Marion : 0 0.0 616 Okaloosa : 0 0.0 334 Putnam : 0 0.0 593 Santa Rosa : 2 506.4 182 St. Johns : 0 0.0 549 Suwannee : 0 0.0 395 Walton : 0 0.0 424 Washington : 0 0.0 463 : Florida : 4 499.0 : Appling : 2 496.3 106 Atkinson : 0 0.0 218 Bacon : 0 0.0 271 Baker : 0 0.0 184 Baldwin : 0 0.0 619 Bartow : 1 485.0 386 Ben Hill : 0 0.0 265 Berrien : 2 487.9 132 Bibb : 0 0.0 556 Bleckley : 1 493.4 164 Blinch : 0 0.0 594 Brooks : 2 501.6 82 Bryan : 0 0.0 458 Bulloch : 2 483.4 77 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Burke : 5 498.0 66 Calhoun : 2 484.5 180 Candler : 2 498.1 216 Chattooga : 0 0.0 567 Clay : 0 0.0 285 Coffee : 2 492.3 84 Colquitt : 7 493.9 29 Cook : 1 494.1 135 Crawford : 1 499.0 407 Crisp : 2 483.6 96 Decatur : 2 495.0 62 Dodge : 1 496.2 156 Dooly : 8 496.8 36 Dougherty : 0 0.0 181 Early : 1 490.0 117 Echols : 0 0.0 439 Effingham : 0 0.0 336 Elbert : 1 500.0 371 Emanuel : 0 0.0 144 Evans : 0 0.0 335 Floyd : 0 0.0 339 Franklin : 0 0.0 602 Glascock : 0 0.0 409 Grady : 0 0.0 112 Hart : 0 0.0 555 Henry : 0 0.0 535 Houston : 0 0.0 202 Irwin : 2 497.0 129 Jeff Davis : 1 497.9 142 Jefferson : 2 504.5 160 Jenkins : 0 0.0 223 Johnson : 1 497.3 316 Lamar : 0 0.0 415 Lanier : 0 0.0 304 Laurens : 2 500.2 205 Lee : 1 483.3 133 Liberty : 0 0.0 603 Long : 0 0.0 507 Lowndes : 1 496.5 239 Macon : 0 0.0 155 Marion : 0 0.0 582 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : McDuffie : 0 0.0 562 Miller : 1 491.7 130 Mitchell : 2 500.0 55 Monroe : 0 0.0 489 Montgomery : 0 0.0 375 Morgan : 1 500.0 419 Oconee : 0 0.0 524 Peach : 0 0.0 318 Pierce : 0 0.0 210 Pike : 0 0.0 618 Polk : 0 0.0 412 Pulaski : 3 483.2 101 Quitman : 0 0.0 387 Randolph : 1 498.0 231 Richmond : 0 0.0 428 Schley : 0 0.0 359 Screven : 1 496.0 149 Seminole : 1 493.0 127 Stewart : 0 0.0 309 Sumter : 2 489.1 93 Tattnall : 0 0.0 267 Taylor : 1 490.0 261 Telfair : 0 0.0 296 Terrell : 1 495.3 159 Thomas : 3 504.2 104 Tift : 3 485.2 114 Toombs : 0 0.0 269 Treutlen : 0 0.0 340 Turner : 2 504.3 121 Twiggs : 0 0.0 337 Walton : 0 0.0 550 Ware : 0 0.0 329 Warren : 0 0.0 525 Washington : 0 0.0 295 Wayne : 0 0.0 203 Webster : 0 0.0 303 Wheeler : 0 0.0 362 Wilcox : 1 490.6 140 Wilkes : 0 0.0 617 Wilkinson : 0 0.0 502 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Worth : 1 503.7 61 : Georgia : 79 494.4 : Kansas 1/ : 1 480.0 : Avoyelles : 1 482.6 169 Bienville : 0 0.0 476 Bossier : 0 0.0 350 Caddo : 6 498.2 147 Caldwell : 0 0.0 237 Catahoula : 4 489.4 32 Claiborne : 0 0.0 595 Concordia : 3 488.3 53 Desoto : 0 0.0 456 East Carroll : 6 474.8 51 Evangeline : 0 0.0 429 Franklin : 11 487.6 21 Grant : 0 0.0 352 Madison : 2 487.4 50 Morehouse : 6 492.3 31 Natchitoches : 2 491.3 238 Ouachita : 2 479.8 141 Pointe Coupe : 1 484.4 259 Rapides : 4 493.3 111 Red River : 1 484.1 324 Richland : 10 484.8 24 Saint Landry : 0 0.0 270 Tensas : 7 495.9 26 Union : 0 0.0 596 Webster : 0 0.0 526 West Carroll : 6 495.7 65 West Felicia : 0 0.0 515 : Louisiana : 72 488.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Adams : 0 0.0 312 Alcorn : 0 0.0 527 Attala : 0 0.0 274 Benton : 2 487.7 420 Bolivar : 8 497.9 35 Calhoun : 3 489.2 124 Carroll : 2 485.0 168 Chickasaw : 1 489.0 227 Choctaw : 0 0.0 449 Claiborne : 0 0.0 351 Clay : 0 0.0 358 Coahoma : 8 492.1 20 Copiah : 0 0.0 453 Covington : 0 0.0 454 Desoto : 2 486.9 185 Forrest : 0 0.0 373 Franklin : 0 0.0 604 George : 0 0.0 388 Greene : 0 0.0 457 Grenada : 1 480.0 191 Hinds : 2 500.0 193 Holmes : 6 487.1 52 Humphreys : 4 491.3 48 Issaquena : 1 481.6 102 Itawamba : 0 0.0 440 Jackson : 0 0.0 563 Jefferson : 1 499.0 366 Lafayette : 1 486.0 272 Lawrence : 0 0.0 438 Leake : 1 489.0 365 Lee : 1 498.0 292 Leflore : 11 490.8 33 Lowndes : 0 0.0 305 Madison : 3 487.3 100 Marshall : 1 500.0 288 Monroe : 2 501.8 201 Montgomery : 1 500.0 255 Newton : 0 0.0 503 Noxubee : 0 0.0 266 Oktibbeha : 0 0.0 477 Panola : 3 495.9 126 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Perry : 0 0.0 353 Pike : 0 0.0 536 Pontotoc : 2 479.4 320 Prentiss : 1 475.0 356 Quitman : 5 489.9 64 Rankin : 2 497.9 263 Scott : 0 0.0 343 Sharkey : 6 491.5 60 Smith : 0 0.0 584 Sunflower : 10 495.0 30 Tallahatchie : 7 496.8 38 Tate : 1 486.8 257 Tippah : 1 505.9 516 Tishomingo : 0 0.0 486 Tunica : 5 486.3 68 Union : 1 475.0 378 Warren : 1 490.4 197 Washington : 13 493.7 22 Webster : 1 480.0 186 Winston : 0 0.0 583 Yalobusha : 1 495.0 229 Yazoo : 7 493.1 43 : Mississippi : 129 492.4 : Bollinger : 0 0.0 621 Butler : 0 0.0 597 Dunklin : 12 486.7 11 Jasper : 0 0.0 620 Mississippi : 0 0.0 376 New Madrid : 9 488.9 23 Pemiscot : 9 483.4 37 Scott : 3 490.5 243 Stoddard : 2 492.3 87 : Missouri : 35 487.1 : Chaves : 2 483.3 214 Curry : 0 0.0 410 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Dona Ana : 8 484.1 115 Eddy : 3 477.1 204 Hidalgo : 1 480.0 466 Lea : 0 0.0 389 Luna : 1 477.6 268 Quay : 1 460.0 443 Roosevelt : 0 0.0 401 Sierra : 0 0.0 487 : New Mexico : 16 481.6 : Anson : 1 495.3 313 Beaufort : 1 488.0 244 Bertie : 2 483.9 91 Bladen : 1 486.7 298 Brunswick : 0 0.0 482 Cabarrus : 0 0.0 383 Chowan : 0 0.0 151 Cleveland : 4 483.8 384 Columbus : 0 0.0 445 Craven : 1 492.9 200 Cumberland : 0 0.0 344 Currituck : 0 0.0 341 Duplin : 3 488.4 199 Edgecombe : 2 499.6 79 Franklin : 0 0.0 568 Gates : 1 490.0 310 Granville : 0 0.0 490 Greene : 1 469.3 178 Guilford : 0 0.0 605 Halifax : 4 492.9 49 Harnett : 1 504.3 240 Hertford : 1 478.3 166 Hoke : 1 492.3 247 Hyde : 0 0.0 297 Iredell : 0 0.0 432 Johnston : 0 0.0 242 Jones : 1 498.2 382 Lee : 0 0.0 508 Lenoir : 2 490.8 167 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Martin : 1 478.3 103 Nash : 2 519.8 158 Northampton : 6 496.4 57 Onslow : 0 0.0 517 Pamlico : 0 0.0 540 Pasquotank : 0 0.0 504 Pender : 0 0.0 541 Perquimans : 1 495.3 211 Pitt : 3 501.4 120 Robeson : 3 511.4 230 Rowan : 0 0.0 528 Rutherford : 1 460.0 564 Sampson : 4 495.7 131 Scotland : 2 509.9 245 Stanly : 2 498.5 280 Tyrrell : 0 0.0 422 Union : 0 0.0 281 Wake : 0 0.0 585 Warren : 0 0.0 574 Washington : 0 0.0 311 Wayne : 1 497.7 171 Wilson : 1 497.1 163 : North Carolina : 54 493.9 : Alfalfa : 0 0.0 623 Beckham : 6 493.1 331 Blaine : 0 0.0 622 Bryan : 1 500.0 624 Caddo : 4 480.6 413 Canadian : 1 480.0 519 Coal : 0 0.0 586 Comanche : 0 0.0 518 Cotton : 1 480.0 491 Custer : 2 493.3 464 Garfield : 0 0.0 542 Grady : 1 493.9 598 Greer : 4 500.5 367 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Harmon : 4 479.8 170 Hughes : 0 0.0 626 Jackson : 5 484.2 90 Jefferson : 0 0.0 625 Kay : 0 0.0 575 Kiowa : 3 485.5 289 Love : 0 0.0 599 Mcclain : 2 463.3 460 Muskogee : 0 0.0 607 Okmulgee : 0 0.0 570 Pottawatomie : 0 0.0 569 Roger Mills : 0 0.0 459 Tillman : 6 496.3 235 Wagoner : 0 0.0 509 Washita : 5 488.8 276 Woods : 0 0.0 606 : Oklahoma : 45 485.8 : Abbeville : 0 0.0 483 Aiken : 2 523.5 253 Allendale : 1 457.0 278 Bamberg : 0 0.0 256 Barnwell : 1 486.0 322 Calhoun : 3 487.6 110 Cherokee : 0 0.0 576 Chester : 0 0.0 435 Chesterfield : 0 0.0 471 Clarendon : 3 486.0 206 Colleton : 0 0.0 510 Darlington : 3 488.3 113 Dillon : 2 501.3 189 Dorchester : 0 0.0 299 Edgefield : 0 0.0 349 Fairfield : 0 0.0 628 Florence : 0 0.0 213 Georgetown : 0 0.0 544 Greenville : 0 0.0 608 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Hampton : 1 485.0 188 Horry : 0 0.0 430 Jasper : 0 0.0 577 Kershaw : 0 0.0 529 Lancaster : 0 0.0 543 Laurens : 0 0.0 627 Lee : 5 466.6 116 Lexington : 0 0.0 436 Marion : 0 0.0 348 Marlboro : 4 496.9 94 Newberry : 0 0.0 600 Orangeburg : 4 487.0 74 Richland : 0 0.0 545 Saluda : 1 492.0 403 Sumter : 6 490.3 233 Williamsburg : 1 500.0 128 York : 1 477.0 346 : South Carolina : 38 487.6 : Carroll : 1 485.0 215 Chester : 0 0.0 342 Coffee : 0 0.0 530 Crockett : 9 484.7 42 Dyer : 1 490.0 125 Fayette : 3 500.2 105 Franklin : 0 0.0 364 Gibson : 6 491.6 71 Giles : 0 0.0 469 Hardeman : 2 497.3 212 Hardin : 0 0.0 444 Haywood : 9 490.1 25 Henderson : 0 0.0 414 Henry : 0 0.0 467 Lake : 1 484.2 225 Lauderdale : 5 489.9 109 Lawrence : 0 0.0 601 Lincoln : 1 485.0 360 Madison : 2 478.2 88 Maury : 0 0.0 494 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Mcnairy : 0 0.0 468 Obion : 0 0.0 333 Rutherford : 0 0.0 399 Shelby : 0 0.0 209 Tipton : 7 495.6 89 Weakley : 0 0.0 520 : Tennessee : 47 489.6 : Anderson : 0 0.0 632 Andrews : 0 0.0 317 Archer : 0 0.0 558 Armstrong : 0 0.0 478 Atascosa : 0 0.0 473 Austin : 0 0.0 396 Bailey : 11 497.4 69 Bastrop : 0 0.0 590 Baylor : 2 490.0 380 Bee : 0 0.0 635 Bell : 0 0.0 441 Bexar : 0 0.0 506 Borden : 1 480.0 393 Bowie : 0 0.0 609 Brazoria : 3 493.4 277 Brazos : 3 488.9 252 Briscoe : 3 495.4 137 Brown : 0 0.0 629 Burleson : 1 492.6 190 Caldwell : 1 487.6 450 Calhoun : 1 496.1 357 Callahan : 0 0.0 630 Cameron : 9 492.9 86 Castro : 7 486.8 44 Childress : 2 497.4 179 Clay : 1 481.7 578 Cochran : 2 496.7 80 Coke : 0 0.0 610 Coleman : 1 499.0 521 Collin : 2 488.7 354 Collingswort : 3 504.4 173 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Colorado : 0 0.0 591 Comanche : 0 0.0 551 Concho : 2 489.0 258 Cottle : 2 489.3 251 Crosby : 7 490.5 16 Dawson : 10 494.4 45 De Witt : 0 0.0 611 Deaf Smith : 1 491.0 300 Delta : 0 0.0 447 Denton : 0 0.0 480 Dickens : 2 491.7 369 Donley : 1 498.0 273 Eastland : 0 0.0 472 El Paso : 6 491.2 98 Ellis : 3 496.2 196 Erath : 0 0.0 587 Falls : 2 490.9 314 Fisher : 3 495.1 175 Floyd : 11 501.5 18 Foard : 0 0.0 557 Fort Bend : 7 491.2 85 Frio : 0 0.0 495 Gaines : 13 498.6 10 Garza : 3 488.9 183 Glasscock : 2 506.0 174 Grayson : 0 0.0 588 Grimes : 0 0.0 511 Hale : 19 497.8 7 Hall : 5 495.8 67 Hamilton : 0 0.0 631 Hardeman : 2 496.0 372 Haskell : 8 497.2 107 Hidalgo : 8 485.1 136 Hill : 4 491.2 123 Hockley : 11 488.8 12 Houston : 1 490.0 465 Howard : 2 477.6 283 Hudspeth : 0 0.0 220 Hunt : 2 486.8 293 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Irion : 0 0.0 589 Jackson : 1 489.9 187 Jim Wells : 0 0.0 379 Johnson : 0 0.0 552 Jones : 9 492.3 153 Karnes : 0 0.0 499 Kaufman : 1 491.0 437 Kent : 1 495.4 416 King : 0 0.0 479 Kleberg : 2 497.4 176 Knox : 4 505.4 138 Lamar : 2 491.4 385 Lamb : 12 500.4 15 Lavaca : 0 0.0 636 Lee : 0 0.0 254 Leon : 0 0.0 634 Limestone : 0 0.0 442 Live Oak : 0 0.0 381 Lubbock : 18 493.7 9 Lynn : 10 495.0 17 Madison : 0 0.0 565 Martin : 7 493.9 194 Matagorda : 1 484.0 154 Mcculloch : 1 485.0 408 Mclennan : 1 479.0 319 Medina : 2 487.5 347 Midland : 1 494.7 236 Milam : 3 477.2 315 Mitchell : 3 489.4 287 Motley : 2 498.7 226 Navarro : 2 499.1 250 Nolan : 1 494.2 286 Nueces : 7 472.5 81 Parmer : 7 497.8 34 Pecos : 1 482.1 275 Rains : 0 0.0 633 Reagan : 0 0.0 208 Real : 0 0.0 505 Red River : 0 0.0 338 Reeves : 2 481.3 262 Refugio : 1 500.0 290 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Robertson : 4 499.1 161 Rockwall : 0 0.0 559 Runnels : 6 497.0 217 San Patricio : 9 494.8 95 Schleicher : 0 0.0 537 Scurry : 3 481.3 345 Shackelford : 0 0.0 531 Starr : 1 503.0 579 Stonewall : 0 0.0 411 Swisher : 5 491.0 54 Taylor : 2 494.4 279 Terry : 10 492.3 5 Throckmorton : 1 486.0 433 Tom Green : 5 495.7 119 Travis : 0 0.0 402 Upton : 1 498.2 294 Uvalde : 0 0.0 282 Van Zandt : 0 0.0 553 Victoria : 0 0.0 355 Walker : 1 499.7 546 Wharton : 6 486.0 75 Wheeler : 0 0.0 394 Wichita : 1 508.5 470 Wilbarger : 4 476.0 326 Willacy : 6 490.5 59 Williamson : 6 495.4 195 Wilson : 0 0.0 512 Yoakum : 5 485.8 27 Young : 1 488.3 446 Zavala : 3 490.3 302 : Texas : 372 493.9 : Accomack : 0 0.0 474 Brunswick : 0 0.0 538 Charles City : 0 0.0 390 Chesapeake c : 0 0.0 613 Dinwiddie : 0 0.0 328 Greensville : 1 491.2 260 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Henrico : 0 0.0 612 Isle of Wigh : 3 483.5 198 King William : 0 0.0 448 King and Que : 0 0.0 513 Lancaster : 0 0.0 637 New Kent : 0 0.0 560 Northampton : 0 0.0 397 Northumberla : 0 0.0 492 Prince Georg : 0 0.0 484 Southampton : 0 0.0 70 Suffolk City : 1 498.3 207 Surry : 0 0.0 308 Sussex : 0 0.0 234 Virginia Bea : 0 0.0 500 : Virginia : 5 487.1 : : 0 0.0 : US Total : 1,214 492.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Withheld to avoid disclosing individual data. Note: County of origin was not determined for approximately 265,950 bales in the U.S., and ranking may be affected. Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins and Bales Ginned by Size Group, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All cotton : : : : : : US 1/ : 1,214 : CA : 103 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 148 : 1 - 2,999 : 3 3,000 - 4,999 : 110 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 5,000 - 6,999 : 114 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 7,000 - 9,999 : 116 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 4 10,000 - 14,999 : 195 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 15 15,000 - 19,999 : 163 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 11 20,000 - 39,999 : 262 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 42 40,000 - and over : 96 : 40,000 - and over : 24 : : : AL : 56 : GA : 79 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 6 : 1 - 2,999 : 1 3,000 - 4,999 : 6 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 4 5,000 - 6,999 : 9 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 2 7,000 - 9,999 : 9 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 10,000 - 14,999 : 6 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 9 15,000 - 19,999 : 7 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 12 20,000 - 39,999 : 10 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 25 40,000 - and over : 3 : 40,000 - and over : 23 : : : AZ : 54 : LA : 72 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 3 : 1 - 2,999 : 1 3,000 - 4,999 : 3 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 5 5,000 - 6,999 : 5 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 8 7,000 - 9,999 : 5 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 6 10,000 - 14,999 : 3 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 13 15,000 - 19,999 : 8 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 12 20,000 - 39,999 : 22 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 21 40,000 - and over : 5 : 40,000 - and over : 6 : : : AR : 104 : MS : 129 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 6 : 1 - 2,999 : 12 3,000 - 4,999 : 8 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 12 5,000 - 6,999 : 12 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 6 7,000 - 9,999 : 4 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 20 10,000 - 14,999 : 26 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 26 15,000 - 19,999 : 17 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 26 20,000 - 39,999 : 27 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 25 40,000 - and over : 4 : 40,000 - and over : 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins and Bales Ginned by Size Group, State, and United States, Crop Year 1996 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MO : 35 : SC : 38 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 0 : 1 - 2,999 : 4 3,000 - 4,999 : 0 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 6 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 7,000 - 9,999 : 8 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 10,000 - 14,999 : 6 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 12 15,000 - 19,999 : 11 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 3 20,000 - 39,999 : 6 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 6 40,000 - and over : 1 : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : : NM : 16 : TN : 47 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 5 : 1 - 2,999 : 4 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 3 5,000 - 6,999 : 2 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 7,000 - 9,999 : 5 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 5 10,000 - 14,999 : 0 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 14 15,000 - 19,999 : 3 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 10 20,000 - 39,999 : 0 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 7 40,000 - and over : 0 : 40,000 - and over : 1 : : : NC : 54 : TX : 372 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 4 : 1 - 2,999 : 67 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 55 5,000 - 6,999 : 2 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 50 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 39 10,000 - 14,999 : 7 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 58 15,000 - 19,999 : 11 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 32 20,000 - 39,999 : 23 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 47 40,000 - and over : 3 : 40,000 - and over : 24 : : : OK : 45 : : : : : 1 - 2,999 : 32 : : 3,000 - 4,999 : 5 : : 5,000 - 6,999 : 5 : : 7,000 - 9,999 : 2 : : 10,000 - 14,999 : 0 : : 15,000 - 19,999 : 0 : : 20,000 - 39,999 : 1 : : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Total number of gins operating. Data excludes 4 gins in Florida, 1 gin in Kansas, and 5 in Virginia. Cotton Ginnings 1996: A total of 18.4 million running bales were ginned during the 1996 season, 6 percent more than 1995's ginnings of 17.5 million bales. The crop was characterized by favorable conditions throughout the majority of the cotton belt, although Louisiana's crop experienced dry conditions which lowered production potential from early season expectations. California suffered extremely high temperatures during September, which reduced yields. There were 1,214 active cotton gins during the 1996 season, down from the 1,274 that operated in 1995. Although there were 5 percent fewer active gins compared to the previous season, the continued changes to high-speed ginning equipment allowed gins to keep pace with the large crop. There were 358 ginning firms processing more than 20,000 bales in 1996, 96 of these processed at least 40,000 bales. Cotton, 1996 Final: All cotton production in the United States totaled 18.9 million bales in 1996, 6 percent above 1995's production. The 1996 output was the third largest crop on record. Upland cotton production, at 18.4 million bales, was 5 percent higher than the previous year, while American-Pima production totaled 528,500 bales, up 44 percent from 1995. The area planted to all cotton totaled 14.6 million acres, down 14 percent from 1995, and harvested area at 12.9 million acres, was down 20 percent from the previous year. Abandonment totaled 12 percent compared to 5 percent in 1995, and Texas abandoned 30 percent of their acreage. Yields for the U.S. averaged 707 pounds per harvested acre, the second highest yield on record. The Delta States' 1996 output increased 2 percent from the 1995 drought and insect reduced production, to 6.06 million bales. Plantings lagged behind the average pace due to wet soils and because other row crops were being planted, but in mid-May, producers exceeded the 5-year average pace and planting was complete in mid-June. Crop development exceeded the 5-year average during the season. Louisiana's crop suffered from dry conditions during early summer and compared to the previous 10 years, boll counts ranked ninth, but boll weights were second highest. Boll weights ranked eighth and sixth in Arkansas and Mississippi, respectively, but Arkansas' large boll counts ranked fifth highest and Mississippi's ranked third highest during the past 10 years. Yields averaged 748 pounds, up 146 pounds from one year earlier. Production in the Southeast, at 4.33 million bales, was up 20 percent from 1995. Yields averaged 730 pounds, 191 pounds above 1995's yields, which were effected by hot and dry conditions. The planting pace was slightly behind average in Alabama and Georgia early in the season, but early May storms followed by a dry period, allowed producers to exceed the average pace by mid-May. Early June storms in these two States replenished soil moisture, and improved crop condition. Hurricane Fran entered North Carolina on September 5, flooding some acreage and deterriorating the condition and yield prospects as it moved across the cotton producing areas. More storms followed hurricane Fran during the month, which slowed harvest in most of the region. The Western States Upland production totaled 3.25 million bales, a 2 percent increase from 1995's output. Arizona's acreage was planted well ahead of the average pace, due to approval of early planting dates in an attempt to lessen any effects of whitefly. California's seeding pace was behind average, as low April soil temperatures and rainfall in mid-April and mid-May, slowed activity and also caused some replantings. California's boll counts were second lowest and boll weights were third lowest since 1986. Yields in this region averaged 1,144 pounds per harvested acre, up 182 pounds from the previous year. The Texas-Oklahoma Upland production, at 4.48 million bales, was 2 percent below the previous year's output. Storms in early June provided some relief from the dry planting conditions in May. High winds and hail damaged some acreage, forcing producers to replant. Poor growing conditions had adverse effects on the South Texas crop during the planting season. These conditions resulted in an abandonment of 28 percent of Texas' planted acreage. Texas producers planted 5.70 million acres, down 11 percent from 1995, and harvested acres, at 4.10 million were down 29 percent. Beneficial amounts of rainfall in August and September, resulted in the highest boll count and second highest boll weights since 1986. Texas Upland cotton yield was a record high 509 pounds per harvested acre. 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