United States Department of Agriculture Cotton Ginnings 1997 Summary May 1998 National Agricultural Statistics Service Ct Gn 1 (98) Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, State, and United States, Crop Years 1994-97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : : State : 1994 : 1995 : 1996 : 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 687,850 460,650 755,850 529,100 AZ : 821,650 831,750 812,850 844,350 AR : 1,766,950 1,452,900 1,593,150 1,627,600 CA : 2,821,200 2,462,350 2,687,550 2,558,400 FL 1/ : GA : 1,500,900 1,908,900 2,041,500 1,884,400 KS 1/ 2/ : 0 LA : 1,513,100 1,378,550 1,299,450 1,001,950 MS : 2,083,350 1,806,850 1,819,250 1,766,450 MO : 555,350 477,400 557,250 547,250 NM : 68,250 69,700 89,600 79,900 NC : 806,150 787,950 985,100 911,350 OK : 232,400 117,250 126,100 178,100 SC : 370,000 351,900 434,000 389,900 TN : 863,250 713,150 664,100 646,850 TX : 4,845,700 4,413,500 4,294,450 5,080,350 VA 1/ : 128,250 153,000 131,400 : US : 19,127,300 17,468,500 18,438,550 18,301,050 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 78,150 70,750 72,450 41,200 CA : 178,300 215,050 360,200 422,450 NM : 14,100 13,900 14,450 10,400 TX : 56,100 54,950 62,900 57,150 : US : 326,650 354,650 510,000 531,200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1996-97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : Equivalent 480-Pound Type : Running Bales Produced : Bales Ginned and :-------------------------------------------------------------- State : 1996 : 1997 : 1996 : 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 762,150 533,100 781,700 545,900 AZ : 827,000 865,400 837,000 866,900 AR : 1,607,000 1,654,650 1,621,350 1,654,750 CA : 2,673,350 2,537,450 2,778,400 2,649,550 FL 1/ : 125,400 114,550 GA : 2,017,850 1,861,900 2,102,850 1,942,100 KS 1/ : 4,100 8,450 LA : 1,263,500 966,000 1,322,150 1,022,000 MS : 1,827,500 1,778,300 1,866,450 1,808,400 MO : 581,500 555,900 565,500 555,350 NM : 102,150 107,850 89,900 79,750 NC : 973,700 900,300 1,013,700 941,150 OK : 130,950 179,650 127,650 180,550 SC : 447,450 403,950 440,800 395,750 TN : 661,350 647,750 677,400 660,600 TX : 4,277,050 5,050,450 4,418,550 5,223,250 VA : 156,550 135,400 155,250 133,050 : US : 18,438,550 18,301,050 18,928,550 18,787,600 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 72,000 40,600 74,800 42,350 CA : 360,650 423,000 374,150 436,600 NM : 18,700 14,550 14,650 10,500 TX : 58,650 53,050 64,400 58,500 : US : 510,000 531,200 528,000 547,950 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : October 1 : October 15 : November 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 4,350 55,050 179,700 AZ : 66,800 164,250 298,750 AR : 40,900 416,500 929,100 CA : 59,650 452,500 1,146,700 FL 1/ : 7,950 32,800 GA : 39,800 242,600 580,800 LA : 130,250 469,300 814,200 MS : 86,800 555,950 1,138,050 MO : 13,150 140,800 340,300 NM : 0 3,100 22,300 NC 1/ : 41,500 201,900 OK : 800 18,700 54,600 SC : 1,200 43,300 112,250 TN : 9,250 166,650 408,850 TX : 756,500 971,950 1,646,150 VA : 0 1,950 23,650 : US : 1,210,450 3,752,050 7,930,100 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 2,800 7,250 16,150 CA : 1,850 41,200 127,100 NM : 0 700 2,850 TX : 0 1,600 13,550 : US : 4,650 50,750 159,650 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : November 15 : December 1 : December 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 292,000 406,650 468,900 AZ : 410,150 525,250 615,350 AR : 1,322,400 1,541,200 1,611,550 CA : 1,708,850 2,157,550 2,398,350 FL : 56,950 85,000 102,400 GA : 855,900 1,234,950 1,546,900 LA : 971,150 998,050 1,000,950 MS : 1,504,650 1,713,700 1,757,100 MO : 473,050 531,150 545,500 NM : 41,050 58,150 67,600 NC : 411,250 657,450 825,700 OK : 102,850 141,700 162,650 SC : 210,050 303,200 356,350 TN : 531,400 622,350 641,450 TX : 2,654,400 3,663,050 4,434,000 VA : 54,650 95,200 127,650 : US : 11,600,750 14,734,600 16,662,400 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 25,700 32,050 37,800 CA : 204,600 276,650 326,700 NM : 4,850 7,750 9,850 TX : 25,200 33,800 41,400 : US : 260,350 350,250 415,750 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : January 1 : January 15 : February 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 512,050 522,050 526,250 AZ : 690,750 745,100 779,300 AR : 1,623,850 1,626,050 1,626,450 CA : 2,486,850 2,528,050 2,549,200 FL 1/ : GA : 1,722,350 1,827,400 1,858,550 KS 1/ : LA : 1,001,300 1,001,950 1,001,950 MS : 1,763,100 1,764,450 1,765,300 MO : 546,850 547,100 547,200 NM : 72,450 76,700 79,450 NC : 902,600 909,950 910,100 OK : 168,950 170,200 172,100 SC : 378,700 386,000 388,500 TN : 645,900 646,200 646,500 TX : 4,853,500 5,014,900 5,070,500 VA : 131,300 131,300 131,400 : US : 17,613,350 18,012,850 18,170,450 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 39,900 40,850 41,200 CA : 360,700 394,600 415,750 NM : 10,300 10,350 10,350 TX : 49,350 55,150 57,150 : US : 460,250 500,950 524,450 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : : Autauga 1/: 13,700 Baldwin 1/: 23,800 Barbour : 0 0 9,600 Blount : 0 0 900 Bullock : 0 0 1,000 Butler : 0 0 1,750 Calhoun : 0 0 1,100 Chambers : 0 0 600 Cherokee : 32,300 33,400 18,800 Chilton 1/: 2,300 Choctaw : 0 0 450 Clarke : 0 0 600 Clay 1/: 0 0 Coffee 1/: 14,800 Colbert 1/: 28,500 Conecuh : 0 0 3,050 Covington 1/: 20,950 Crenshaw 1/: 2,850 Cullman 1/: 0 0 Dale : 0 0 5,250 Dallas 1/: 17,200 Dekalb 1/: 0 0 Elmore : 20,100 20,600 17,350 Escambia 1/: 47,750 Etowah : 0 0 2,100 Fayette 1/: 2,200 Geneva 1/: 32,100 Greene 1/: 1,300 Henry 1/: 17,300 Houston 1/: 27,850 Jackson : 0 0 550 Lamar 1/: 0 0 Lauderdale 1/: 23,000 Lawrence : 41,600 43,450 28,050 Lee : 0 0 3,050 Limestone : 23,150 24,100 19,100 Lowndes 1/: 5,400 Macon 1/: 7,100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Madison 1/: 4,550 Marengo 1/: 4,300 Marion 1/: 0 0 Marshall 1/: 0 0 Mobile 1/: 16,800 Monroe 1/: 48,200 Montgomery : 0 0 2,300 Perry : 0 0 3,050 Pickens 1/: 2,500 Pike : 0 0 10,650 Russell 1/: 8,200 Shelby : 0 0 6,400 Talladega : 0 0 1,900 Tallapoosa 1/: 2,050 Tuscaloosa 1/: 7,450 Washington : 0 0 2,150 Wilcox : 0 0 3,000 Oth 2/: 7,650 : Alabama : 529,100 545,900 533,100 : Cochise 1/: 8,700 Graham 1/: 42,000 Greenlee : 0 0 2,800 La Paz 1/: 57,950 Maricopa : 351,550 357,500 308,750 Mohave 1/: 16,400 Pima 1/: 26,250 Pinal : 266,550 274,650 312,850 Yuma : 92,400 96,600 89,700 : Arizona : 844,350 866,900 865,400 : Arkansas 1/: 0 0 Ashley : 109,400 110,050 112,850 Chicot 1/: 74,950 Clay : 32,600 32,600 51,100 Craighead : 166,000 167,450 139,350 Crittenden 1/: 88,950 Cross 1/: 1,400 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Desha : 204,200 206,350 171,800 Drew 1/: 35,600 Franklin 1/: 0 0 Greene 1/: 29,750 Jackson : 0 0 2,350 Jefferson : 111,400 114,350 107,200 Lafayette 1/: 4,700 Lee 1/: 52,350 Lincoln 1/: 61,950 Lonoke : 59,300 60,350 50,300 Miller 1/: 3,250 Mississippi : 344,400 349,050 362,450 Monroe 1/: 32,250 Phillips : 149,400 151,700 123,250 Poinsett : 113,950 115,750 106,900 Prairie 1/: 2,450 Pulaski : 0 0 2,050 Saint Franci : 48,750 49,850 26,600 Woodruff 1/: 9,350 : Arkansas : 1,627,600 1,654,750 1,654,650 : Butte 1/: 0 0 Colusa 1/: 11,550 Fresno : 915,100 950,950 939,500 Glenn : 0 0 1,350 Imperial 1/: 21,200 Kern : 549,950 568,650 583,650 Kings : 449,500 462,400 437,250 Madera 1/: 82,100 Mendocino : 0 0 10,450 Merced : 180,850 186,350 213,550 Riverside 1/: 34,800 Sutter 1/: 1,300 Tehama 1/: 0 0 Tulare : 235,700 243,900 190,650 Yolo : 0 0 9,750 : California : 2,558,400 2,649,550 2,537,450 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Alachua : 0 0 1,550 Calhoun : 0 0 4,900 Columbia 1/: 0 0 Dixie 1/: 0 0 Escambia 1/: 15,850 Gadsen 1/: 0 0 Gilchrist 1/: 0 0 Hamilton : 0 0 4,350 Holmes : 0 0 850 Jackson 1/: 23,900 Jefferson : 0 0 2,150 Madison : 0 0 1,650 Okaloosa : 0 0 6,450 Okeechobee : 0 0 1,150 Santa Rosa 1/: 44,750 Suwannee : 0 0 1,000 Walton : 0 0 4,050 Washington : 0 0 1,100 : Florida 1/: 114,550 : Appling 1/: 43,350 Atkinson : 0 0 18,050 Bacon : 0 0 11,150 Baker : 0 0 27,850 Baldwin 1/: 0 0 Bartow 1/: 3,050 Ben Hill : 0 0 10,300 Berrien 1/: 32,000 Bibb : 0 0 400 Bleckley 1/: 19,250 Blinch 1/: 0 0 Brantley 1/: 0 0 Brooks 1/: 58,700 Bryan : 0 0 2,050 Bulloch 1/: 73,150 Burke : 104,900 109,100 69,500 Calhoun 1/: 21,800 Candler 1/: 17,750 Clay : 0 0 7,250 Coffee 1/: 62,300 Colquitt : 241,250 248,100 129,050 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Columbia 1/: 0 0 Cook 1/: 35,700 Crawford : 0 0 350 Crisp 1/: 44,450 Decatur 1/: 63,550 Dodge 1/: 21,300 Dooly : 148,050 152,650 90,150 Dougherty : 0 0 16,100 Early 1/: 40,000 Echols : 0 0 1,050 Effingham : 0 0 2,450 Elbert : 0 0 2,150 Emanuel : 0 0 35,800 Evans : 0 0 4,100 Floyd : 0 0 3,850 Glascock : 0 0 1,850 Grady : 0 0 39,000 Hart : 0 0 350 Henry : 0 0 800 Houston : 0 0 17,600 Irwin 1/: 37,200 Jeff Davis 1/: 31,450 Jefferson 1/: 20,650 Jenkins : 0 0 20,550 Johnson 1/: 5,800 Lamar : 0 0 2,400 Lanier : 0 0 8,000 Laurens 1/: 12,250 Lee 1/: 18,800 Lowndes 1/: 13,550 Macon : 0 0 14,250 Marion : 0 0 350 McDuffie : 0 0 600 Miller 1/: 31,550 Mitchell 1/: 72,200 Monroe 1/: 0 0 Montgomery : 0 0 2,800 Morgan 1/: 2,000 Oconee : 0 0 600 Peach : 0 0 9,100 Pierce : 0 0 20,350 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Polk : 0 0 1,250 Pulaski 1/: 36,050 Quitman : 0 0 1,300 Randolph 1/: 12,200 Richmond : 0 0 1,700 Schley : 0 0 2,100 Screven 1/: 34,950 Seminole 1/: 29,400 Stewart : 0 0 2,150 Sumter 1/: 43,700 Tattnall : 0 0 8,750 Taylor 1/: 4,300 Telfair : 0 0 8,350 Terrell 1/: 19,800 Thomas 1/: 50,400 Tift 1/: 45,200 Toombs : 0 0 11,600 Treutlen : 0 0 4,150 Turner 1/: 42,500 Twiggs : 0 0 3,850 Walton : 0 0 450 Ware : 0 0 4,050 Warren 1/: 0 0 Washington : 0 0 7,550 Wayne : 0 0 20,650 Webster : 0 0 6,350 Wheeler : 0 0 2,100 Wilcox 1/: 29,700 Wilkes 1/: 0 0 Wilkinson : 0 0 400 Worth 1/: 74,150 : Georgia : 1,884,400 1,942,100 1,861,900 : : Kansas 1/: 8,450 : Avoyelles 1/: 22,650 Bienville : 0 0 950 Bossier : 0 0 2,250 Caddo : 29,250 30,450 24,800 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Caldwell : 0 0 13,500 Catahoula : 66,400 67,450 78,900 Claiborne : 0 0 450 Concordia : 70,400 72,250 58,650 Desoto : 0 0 1,550 East Carroll : 94,150 94,650 71,950 Evangeline : 0 0 1,100 Franklin : 137,500 141,300 120,700 Grant : 0 0 2,900 Lasalle 1/: 0 0 Madison 1/: 67,900 Morehouse : 133,150 135,400 110,050 Natchitoches 1/: 4,500 Ouachita 1/: 25,600 Pointe Coupe 1/: 7,250 Rapides : 39,400 40,250 30,950 Red River 1/: 3,250 Richland : 156,300 158,250 110,550 Saint Landry : 0 0 5,450 Tensas : 123,600 127,150 139,800 Union : 0 0 300 Webster : 0 0 500 West Carroll : 75,350 77,850 59,200 West Felicia 1/: 0 0 : Louisiana : 1,001,950 1,022,000 966,000 : Adams : 0 0 4,400 Alcorn : 0 0 400 Attala : 0 0 8,150 Benton 1/: 2,450 Bolivar : 119,200 122,950 114,050 Calhoun : 39,300 39,450 31,250 Carroll 1/: 24,200 Chickasaw 1/: 7,200 Choctaw : 0 0 1,200 Claiborne : 0 0 7,400 Clay : 0 0 2,100 Coahoma : 183,300 185,300 175,500 Copiah : 0 0 3,250 Covington : 0 0 1,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Desoto 1/: 21,600 Forrest : 0 0 4,450 Franklin : 0 0 300 George : 0 0 5,100 Greene : 0 0 850 Grenada 1/: 15,000 Hinds 1/: 19,150 Holmes : 101,900 105,150 87,200 Humphreys : 99,750 102,850 107,600 Issaquena : 0 0 40,500 Itawamba : 0 0 1,200 Jackson 1/: 0 0 Jefferson 1/: 7,200 Jones 1/: 0 0 Lafayette 1/: 4,900 Lamar : 0 0 500 Leake 1/: 2,300 Lee 1/: 4,800 Leflore : 156,600 160,700 152,600 Lowndes : 0 0 2,200 Madison : 30,350 30,600 42,700 Marshall : 0 0 300 Monroe 1/: 21,600 Montgomery 1/: 12,500 Newton : 0 0 600 Noxubee : 0 0 6,950 Oktibbeha : 0 0 1,050 Panola : 31,350 32,450 41,450 Pontotoc 1/: 6,200 Prentiss : 0 0 1,900 Quitman : 69,550 71,150 54,700 Rankin 1/: 8,900 Scott : 0 0 3,300 Sharkey : 78,550 80,450 67,000 Smith : 0 0 350 Sunflower : 129,850 132,950 106,200 Tallahatchie : 105,500 108,450 116,300 Tate 1/: 11,250 Tippah 1/: 300 Tishomingo : 0 0 500 Tunica : 61,500 62,550 77,750 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Union 1/: 2,550 Warren 1/: 18,150 Washington : 160,600 164,950 164,800 Webster 1/: 19,050 Winston 1/: 0 0 Yalobusha 1/: 17,150 Yazoo : 132,750 136,500 114,600 : Mississippi : 1,766,450 1,808,400 1,778,300 : Butler 1/: 0 0 Dade 1/: 0 0 Dunklin : 227,550 231,050 218,550 Mississippi : 0 0 2,400 New Madrid : 144,600 146,700 140,350 Pemiscot : 129,050 130,650 125,550 Scott 1/: 12,350 Stoddard 1/: 43,750 Oth 2/: 11,450 : Missouri : 547,250 555,350 555,900 : Chaves 1/: 11,400 Curry : 0 0 5,350 Dona Ana : 40,600 40,650 43,200 Eddy 1/: 17,400 Hidalgo 1/: Lea : 0 0 6,150 Luna 1/: 11,500 Quay 1/: 3,200 Roosevelt : 0 0 8,300 Sierra 1/: 0 0 : New Mexico : 79,900 79,750 107,850 : Anson 1/: 7,050 Beaufort 1/: 11,050 Bertie 1/: 47,400 Bladen 1/: 8,200 Brunswick : 0 0 1,000 Cabarrus : 0 0 3,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Camden : 0 0 1,600 Carteret : 0 0 900 Chatham 1/: 0 0 Chowan : 0 0 22,550 Cleveland 1/: 2,700 Columbus : 0 0 1,550 Craven 1/: 21,300 Cumberland : 0 0 6,250 Currituck : 0 0 3,400 Davidson 1/: 0 0 Duplin 1/: 29,300 Edgecombe 1/: 48,200 Franklin : 0 0 300 Gaston 1/: 0 0 Gates 1/: 20,650 Greene 1/: 23,700 Guilford 1/: 0 0 Halifax : 74,700 75,700 51,550 Harnett 1/: 13,100 Hertford 1/: 20,250 Hoke 1/: 22,000 Hyde : 0 0 11,500 Iredell 1/: 0 0 Johnston : 0 0 10,700 Jones 1/: 30,100 Lee : 0 0 750 Lenoir 1/: 34,650 Lincoln 1/: 0 0 Martin 1/: 46,150 Montgomery 1/: 0 0 Nash 1/: 41,600 Northampton : 65,800 68,250 63,550 Onslow : 0 0 6,200 Pamlico : 0 0 6,000 Pasquotank : 0 0 3,400 Pender 1/: 0 0 Perquimans 1/: 18,100 Pitt 1/: 41,550 Robeson : 44,000 46,900 32,600 Rowan : 0 0 700 Rutherford 1/: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Sampson : 78,500 80,700 74,700 Scotland 1/: 22,500 Stanly 1/: 8,800 Tyrrell : 0 0 1,250 Union : 0 0 8,350 Wake 1/: 0 0 Washington : 0 0 9,900 Wayne 1/: 26,500 Wilson 1/: 32,350 Yadkin 1/: 0 0 : North Carolina : 911,350 941,150 900,300 : Alfalfa 1/: 0 0 Atoka 1/: 0 0 Beckham : 4,550 4,700 3,350 Bryan 1/: Caddo : 2,050 2,100 1,500 Canadian 1/: 550 Cleveland 1/: 0 0 Coal 1/: 0 0 Comanche : 0 0 1,250 Cotton 1/: 650 Custer 1/: 500 Garvin 1/: 0 0 Grady 1/: Grant : 0 0 450 Greer 1/: 4,950 Harmon : 22,500 22,750 26,500 Jackson : 98,800 99,600 96,600 Jefferson 1/: 0 0 Kay : 0 0 5,900 Kingfisher 1/: 0 0 Kiowa : 10,100 10,250 10,150 Love 1/: 0 0 Mcclain 1/: Okmulgee 1/: 0 0 Pottawatomie 1/: 0 0 Roger Mills : 0 0 750 Tillman : 16,100 16,450 14,500 Wagoner : 0 0 900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Washita : 8,300 8,600 9,300 Oth 2/: 400 : Oklahoma : 178,100 180,550 179,650 : Abbeville 1/: 0 0 Aiken 1/: 10,000 Allendale 1/: 8,100 Anderson : 0 0 300 Bamberg : 0 0 19,000 Barnwell 1/: 3,300 Berkeley 1/: 0 0 Calhoun : 65,250 66,400 39,000 Chester : 0 0 1,650 Chesterfield : 0 0 1,100 Clarendon : 28,050 28,450 21,100 Colleton : 0 0 1,050 Darlington : 28,550 29,050 39,500 Dillon 1/: 22,800 Dorchester : 0 0 7,950 Edgefield : 0 0 3,000 Florence : 0 0 18,800 Georgetown : 0 0 550 Hampton 1/: 26,650 Horry : 0 0 1,250 Kershaw : 0 0 750 Laurens 1/: 0 0 Lee : 40,250 39,550 32,200 Lexington : 0 0 2,300 Marion : 0 0 4,350 Marlboro : 44,600 46,200 46,700 Orangeburg : 59,600 60,100 49,100 Saluda 1/: 1,700 Sumter : 28,100 28,650 10,600 Williamsburg 1/: 27,750 York 1/: 2,800 : South Carolina : 389,900 395,750 403,950 : Carroll 1/: 8,900 Chester : 0 0 6,700 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Crockett : 133,350 134,750 118,350 Dyer 1/: 44,250 Fayette : 49,050 51,000 49,950 Franklin : 0 0 2,450 Gibson : 59,150 60,500 46,350 Giles : 0 0 1,450 Hardeman 1/: 16,200 Hardin : 0 0 550 Haywood : 187,300 191,650 155,950 Henderson : 0 0 650 Henry 1/: 0 0 Lake 1/: 15,050 Lauderdale : 64,900 65,600 42,400 Lincoln 1/: 2,950 Madison 1/: 46,500 Maury 1/: 0 0 Mcnairy : 0 0 500 Obion : 0 0 4,200 Rutherford : 0 0 700 Shelby : 0 0 17,050 Tipton : 75,150 77,950 65,350 Weakley : 0 0 600 Oth 2/: 150 : Tennessee : 646,850 660,600 647,750 : Anderson : 0 0 1,250 Andrews : 0 0 11,300 Atascosa : 0 0 300 Austin : 0 0 2,050 Bailey : 115,800 120,600 82,500 Bastrop 1/: 0 0 Baylor 1/: 4,000 Bee : 0 0 1,900 Bell : 0 0 4,450 Borden 1/: 18,500 Brazoria : 12,700 12,900 11,150 Brazos 1/: 10,050 Briscoe : 53,350 55,350 30,550 Brooks : 0 0 350 Burleson 1/: 25,150 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Caldwell 1/: 2,800 Calhoun 1/: 14,150 Callahan 1/: 0 0 Cameron : 43,550 45,150 47,150 Castro : 71,350 72,750 95,500 Childress 1/: 29,750 Clay 1/: 400 Cochran 1/: 91,250 Coke 1/: 0 0 Coleman 1/: 850 Collin 1/: 5,000 Collingswort : 28,800 29,950 21,550 Colorado : 0 0 1,500 Comanche : 0 0 300 Concho 1/: 16,950 Coryell 1/: 0 0 Cottle 1/: 14,250 Crosby : 207,150 213,750 199,350 Culberson 1/: Dawson : 181,350 185,500 206,350 De Witt 1/: 0 0 Deaf Smith 1/: 13,350 Delta : 0 0 1,400 Denton : 0 0 700 Dickens 1/: 13,500 Donley 1/: 11,150 Duval 1/: 0 0 Eastland : 0 0 600 El Paso 1/: 48,800 Ellis : 25,050 24,800 27,900 Erath : 0 0 300 Falls 1/: 7,500 Fisher 1/: 72,150 Floyd : 143,300 148,000 165,950 Foard 1/: 2,700 Fort Bend : 42,500 43,450 45,400 Frio : 0 0 1,750 Gaines : 310,450 324,700 291,800 Garza 1/: 31,900 Glasscock 1/: 68,050 Grayson : 0 0 300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Grimes 1/: 0 0 Guadalupe 1/: 0 0 Hale : 286,650 295,600 266,150 Hall : 58,350 60,800 55,300 Hardeman 1/: 4,450 Hardin : 0 0 400 Harris : 0 0 800 Haskell : 55,900 57,500 62,000 Hays 1/: 0 0 Hidalgo : 50,600 52,100 48,400 Hill : 28,250 28,900 23,300 Hockley : 273,500 281,700 195,400 Houston 1/: 2,950 Howard : 84,900 88,550 79,850 Hudspeth : 0 0 19,950 Hunt 1/: 8,900 Jackson 1/: 23,050 Jim Wells : 0 0 6,600 Johnson : 0 0 1,800 Jones : 77,750 80,700 58,500 Karnes : 0 0 2,900 Kent 1/: 1,850 Kerr 1/: 0 0 King : 0 0 1,500 Kinney : 0 0 950 Kleberg 1/: 24,100 Knox 1/: 26,650 Lamar 1/: 1,100 Lamb : 258,050 268,950 222,000 Lee : 0 0 1,650 Leon 1/: 0 0 Limestone : 0 0 1,250 Live Oak : 0 0 1,450 Lubbock : 260,600 270,250 245,800 Lynn : 284,100 280,850 252,500 Madison : 0 0 400 Martin : 172,200 177,800 120,100 Matagorda 1/: 31,500 Mcculloch 1/: 3,100 Mclennan 1/: 8,450 Medina 1/: 6,850 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Midland 1/: 26,700 Milam 1/: 13,050 Mitchell : 41,700 43,350 39,200 Motley 1/: 14,550 Navarro 1/: 16,300 Nolan 1/: 37,050 Nueces : 79,200 82,000 95,050 Parker 1/: 0 0 Parmer : 90,700 94,550 107,050 Pecos 1/: 11,800 Reagan : 0 0 23,050 Red River : 0 0 4,400 Reeves 1/: 16,150 Refugio 1/: 19,050 Roberts : 0 0 300 Robertson : 30,300 31,550 21,550 Runnels : 38,750 39,900 25,150 San Patricio : 128,450 132,050 89,400 Schleicher : 0 0 2,250 Scurry : 61,500 61,950 46,500 Shackelford : 0 0 850 Starr 1/: 2,900 Stephens 1/: 0 0 Stonewall : 0 0 850 Swisher : 60,000 61,500 56,650 Taylor 1/: 12,750 Terry : 225,750 232,800 244,300 Throckmorton 1/: 2,150 Tom Green : 62,250 64,300 64,700 Travis : 0 0 2,750 Upton 1/: 12,100 Uvalde : 0 0 13,100 Victoria : 0 0 12,150 Walker 1/: Waller : 0 0 1,450 Washington : 0 0 400 Wharton : 94,250 94,300 58,450 Wheeler : 0 0 2,000 Wichita 1/: 4,450 Wilbarger : 13,950 14,150 10,350 Willacy : 93,000 95,550 90,500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Williamson : 30,500 31,600 28,200 Wilson : 0 0 850 Yoakum : 152,700 154,700 161,900 Young 1/: 1,050 Zavala 1/: 7,300 Oth 2/: 80,450 : Texas : 5,080,350 5,223,250 5,050,450 : Accomack : 0 0 2,500 Amelia 1/: 0 0 Brunswick 1/: 0 0 Charles City : 0 0 2,400 Dinwiddie : 0 0 2,850 Greensville 1/: 9,250 Isle of Wigh 1/: 16,500 King William 1/: 0 0 King and Que 1/: 0 0 Lancaster 1/: 0 0 Northampton : 0 0 4,250 Northumberla : 0 0 950 Prince Georg : 0 0 700 Southampton : 0 0 61,500 Suffolk City 1/: 16,300 Surry : 0 0 8,000 Sussex 1/: 8,200 : Virginia : 131,400 133,050 135,400 : US TOTAL : 18,301,050 18,787,600 18,301,050 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Withheld to avoid disclosing individual gins, but included in State and U. S. totals. 2/ County of origin was not determined. Note: Counties may not add to State total due to rounding. Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Autauga : 2 496.9 247 Baldwin : 1 492.8 179 Barbour : 0 0.0 285 Blount : 0 0.0 487 Bullock : 0 0.0 479 Butler : 0 0.0 436 Calhoun : 0 0.0 470 Chambers : 0 0.0 511 Cherokee : 4 496.1 214 Chilton : 1 485.0 406 Choctaw : 0 0.0 527 Clarke : 0 0.0 512 Clay : 0 0.0 605 Coffee : 1 507.1 241 Colbert : 2 490.3 158 Conecuh : 0 0.0 376 Covington : 1 502.4 199 Crenshaw : 2 489.5 386 Cullman : 0 0.0 604 Dale : 0 0.0 336 Dallas : 2 503.5 226 Dekalb : 0 0.0 580 Elmore : 3 492.5 224 Escambia : 1 503.0 100 Etowah : 0 0.0 420 Fayette : 1 535.3 413 Geneva : 2 485.3 143 Greene : 1 490.0 458 Henry : 2 486.2 225 Houston : 2 496.2 162 Jackson : 0 0.0 518 Lamar : 0 0.0 582 Lauderdale : 2 485.0 184 Lawrence : 4 501.1 160 Lee : 0 0.0 374 Limestone : 6 500.1 210 Lowndes : 1 501.3 334 Macon : 1 500.0 317 Madison : 1 490.0 344 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Marengo : 1 480.4 354 Marion : 0 0.0 572 Marshall : 0 0.0 581 Mobile : 1 501.8 230 Monroe : 1 490.1 98 Montgomery : 0 0.0 407 Perry : 0 0.0 375 Pickens : 1 502.1 397 Pike : 0 0.0 275 Russell : 2 484.7 300 Shelby : 0 0.0 324 Talladega : 0 0.0 430 Tallapoosa : 1 491.5 424 Tuscaloosa : 1 475.5 310 Washington : 0 0.0 415 Wilcox : 0 0.0 378 : Alabama : 51 495.2 : Cochise : 3 487.0 295 Graham : 4 486.7 120 Greenlee : 0 0.0 388 La Paz : 3 494.1 85 Maricopa : 15 488.1 6 Mohave : 1 496.3 232 Pima : 2 500.1 171 Pinal : 19 494.6 5 Yuma : 4 501.9 52 : Arizona : 51 492.8 : Arkansas : 0 0.0 456 Ashley : 7 482.9 38 Chicot : 2 494.3 61 Clay : 3 480.0 91 Craighead : 9 484.2 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Crittenden : 5 490.0 54 Cross : 1 511.0 454 Desha : 6 485.0 20 Drew : 1 484.0 135 Franklin : 0 0.0 606 Greene : 3 489.5 153 Jackson : 0 0.0 405 Jefferson : 10 492.7 42 Lafayette : 2 489.9 343 Lee : 1 511.9 89 Lincoln : 1 497.0 78 Lonoke : 5 488.6 93 Miller : 1 500.0 369 Mississippi : 15 486.5 4 Monroe : 2 492.8 141 Phillips : 7 487.4 31 Poinsett : 7 487.6 44 Prairie : 1 480.0 399 Pulaski : 0 0.0 425 Saint Franci : 4 490.7 168 Woodruff : 1 501.7 286 : Arkansas : 94 488.0 : Butte : 0 0.0 607 Colusa : 1 500.0 264 Fresno : 37 498.8 1 Glenn : 0 0.0 457 Imperial : 1 490.1 197 Kern : 22 496.3 2 Kings : 13 493.8 3 Madera : 5 503.2 57 Mendocino : 0 0.0 277 Merced : 6 494.6 14 Riverside : 2 500.0 137 Sutter : 1 497.9 459 Tehama : 0 0.0 546 Tulare : 9 496.7 18 Yolo : 0 0.0 284 : California : 97 497.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Alachua : 0 0.0 445 Calhoun : 0 0.0 340 Columbia : 0 0.0 547 Dixie : 0 0.0 583 Escambia : 1 489.3 238 Gadsen : 0 0.0 539 Gilchrist : 0 0.0 566 Hamilton : 0 0.0 352 Holmes : 0 0.0 491 Jackson : 1 494.0 178 Jefferson : 0 0.0 416 Madison : 0 0.0 440 Okaloosa : 0 0.0 323 Okeechobee : 0 0.0 469 Santa Rosa : 2 502.8 110 Suwannee : 0 0.0 480 Walton : 0 0.0 359 Washington : 0 0.0 471 : Florida : 4 499.0 : Appling : 2 499.8 115 Atkinson : 0 0.0 220 Bacon : 0 0.0 270 Baker : 0 0.0 163 Baldwin : 0 0.0 584 Bartow : 1 492.0 377 Ben Hill : 0 0.0 279 Berrien : 2 488.7 144 Bibb : 0 0.0 531 Bleckley : 1 492.0 208 Blinch : 0 0.0 609 Brantley : 0 0.0 587 Brooks : 2 503.9 81 Bryan : 0 0.0 426 Bulloch : 2 480.7 64 Burke : 5 499.2 68 Calhoun : 2 492.2 190 Candler : 2 498.5 221 Clay : 0 0.0 313 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Coffee : 2 491.7 76 Colquitt : 7 493.6 29 Columbia : 0 0.0 567 Cook : 1 495.4 134 Crawford : 0 0.0 542 Crisp : 2 483.9 111 Decatur : 2 498.6 74 Dodge : 1 496.0 195 Dooly : 8 494.9 51 Dougherty : 0 0.0 237 Early : 1 495.5 125 Echols : 0 0.0 475 Effingham : 0 0.0 400 Elbert : 0 0.0 417 Emanuel : 0 0.0 133 Evans : 0 0.0 358 Floyd : 0 0.0 362 Glascock : 0 0.0 433 Grady : 0 0.0 128 Hart : 0 0.0 540 Henry : 0 0.0 497 Houston : 0 0.0 222 Irwin : 2 497.0 130 Jeff Davis : 1 503.5 148 Jefferson : 2 506.7 200 Jenkins : 0 0.0 203 Johnson : 1 500.1 332 Lamar : 0 0.0 403 Lanier : 0 0.0 305 Laurens : 2 496.0 258 Lee : 1 487.0 215 Lowndes : 1 496.1 248 Macon : 0 0.0 244 Marion : 0 0.0 541 McDuffie : 0 0.0 514 Miller : 1 497.1 146 Mitchell : 2 500.0 65 Monroe : 0 0.0 585 Montgomery : 0 0.0 389 Morgan : 1 500.0 428 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Oconee : 0 0.0 513 Peach : 0 0.0 289 Pierce : 0 0.0 204 Polk : 0 0.0 461 Pulaski : 3 482.1 132 Quitman : 0 0.0 460 Randolph : 1 500.8 259 Richmond : 0 0.0 438 Schley : 0 0.0 421 Screven : 1 509.0 136 Seminole : 1 493.7 156 Stewart : 0 0.0 418 Sumter : 2 484.9 114 Tattnall : 0 0.0 294 Taylor : 1 490.0 354 Telfair : 0 0.0 297 Terrell : 1 496.3 207 Thomas : 3 489.9 92 Tift : 3 485.8 109 Toombs : 0 0.0 263 Treutlen : 0 0.0 357 Turner : 2 502.4 118 Twiggs : 0 0.0 363 Walton : 0 0.0 528 Ware : 0 0.0 360 Warren : 0 0.0 586 Washington : 0 0.0 308 Wayne : 0 0.0 201 Webster : 0 0.0 325 Wheeler : 0 0.0 422 Wilcox : 1 490.0 155 Wilkes : 0 0.0 608 Wilkinson : 0 0.0 532 Worth : 1 495.0 63 : Georgia : 77 494.7 : Kansas 1/ : 1 495.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Avoyelles : 1 476.2 186 Bienville : 0 0.0 484 Bossier : 0 0.0 411 Caddo : 6 500.1 175 Caldwell : 0 0.0 249 Catahoula : 4 487.5 59 Claiborne : 0 0.0 529 Concordia : 3 492.6 82 Desoto : 0 0.0 446 East Carroll : 6 482.5 67 Evangeline : 0 0.0 472 Franklin : 10 493.2 32 Grant : 0 0.0 383 Lasalle : 0 0.0 573 Madison : 2 477.2 70 Morehouse : 5 488.2 40 Natchitoches : 2 497.6 345 Ouachita : 1 494.6 172 Pointe Coupe : 1 489.2 314 Rapides : 4 490.5 150 Red River : 1 480.7 370 Richland : 10 486.0 39 Saint Landry : 0 0.0 333 Tensas : 7 493.7 27 Union : 0 0.0 548 Webster : 0 0.0 522 West Carroll : 5 496.0 80 West Felicia : 0 0.0 610 : Louisiana : 68 489.6 : Adams : 0 0.0 350 Alcorn : 0 0.0 533 Attala : 0 0.0 303 Benton : 2 488.0 401 Bolivar : 9 495.0 37 Calhoun : 3 482.1 149 Carroll : 2 491.4 176 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Chickasaw : 1 488.6 315 Choctaw : 0 0.0 468 Claiborne : 0 0.0 311 Clay : 0 0.0 423 Coahoma : 8 485.3 19 Copiah : 0 0.0 371 Covington : 0 0.0 481 Desoto : 3 487.8 191 Forrest : 0 0.0 346 Franklin : 0 0.0 551 George : 0 0.0 337 Greene : 0 0.0 492 Grenada : 1 500.0 240 Hinds : 2 488.0 209 Holmes : 5 495.4 55 Humphreys : 4 495.0 41 Issaquena : 0 0.0 124 Itawamba : 0 0.0 467 Jackson : 0 0.0 589 Jefferson : 1 495.0 316 Jones : 0 0.0 590 Lafayette : 1 482.1 341 Lamar : 0 0.0 524 Leake : 1 470.0 408 Lee : 1 495.0 342 Leflore : 10 492.6 25 Lowndes : 0 0.0 414 Madison : 3 484.2 117 Marshall : 0 0.0 549 Monroe : 3 494.8 192 Montgomery : 3 497.7 256 Newton : 0 0.0 515 Noxubee : 0 0.0 319 Oktibbeha : 0 0.0 476 Panola : 3 497.2 123 Pontotoc : 2 481.6 327 Prentiss : 0 0.0 431 Quitman : 5 491.1 88 Rankin : 2 491.5 290 Scott : 0 0.0 367 Sharkey : 6 491.6 71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Smith : 0 0.0 543 Sunflower : 8 491.4 45 Tallahatchie : 7 493.5 35 Tate : 1 489.0 269 Tippah : 1 498.7 550 Tishomingo : 0 0.0 523 Tunica : 5 488.1 60 Union : 1 480.0 396 Warren : 1 490.7 218 Washington : 12 493.0 22 Webster : 1 480.0 211 Winston : 0 0.0 588 Yalobusha : 1 492.0 227 Yazoo : 8 493.5 36 : Mississippi : 127 491.4 : Butler : 0 0.0 508 Dade : 0 0.0 498 Dunklin : 13 487.4 13 Mississippi : 0 0.0 404 New Madrid : 9 486.9 26 Pemiscot : 9 485.9 30 Scott : 3 493.8 257 Stoddard : 2 485.9 113 : Missouri : 36 487.1 : Chaves : 2 481.3 267 Curry : 0 0.0 335 Dona Ana : 8 480.7 116 Eddy : 3 474.2 223 Hidalgo : 1 475.0 482 Lea : 0 0.0 329 Luna : 1 480.1 265 Quay : 1 450.0 372 Roosevelt : 0 0.0 299 Sierra : 0 0.0 544 : New Mexico : 16 479.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Anson : 1 495.2 318 Beaufort : 1 489.2 273 Bertie : 2 486.0 101 Bladen : 1 490.0 301 Brunswick : 0 0.0 483 Cabarrus : 0 0.0 379 Camden : 0 0.0 443 Carteret : 0 0.0 488 Chatham : 0 0.0 591 Chowan : 0 0.0 187 Cleveland : 4 487.7 393 Columbus : 0 0.0 447 Craven : 1 499.7 196 Cumberland : 0 0.0 326 Currituck : 0 0.0 364 Davidson : 0 0.0 560 Duplin : 1 484.3 157 Edgecombe : 2 504.7 99 Franklin : 0 0.0 552 Gaston : 0 0.0 613 Gates : 1 488.9 202 Greene : 1 492.0 180 Guilford : 0 0.0 612 Halifax : 4 486.4 90 Harnett : 1 497.2 252 Hertford : 1 497.3 205 Hoke : 1 499.9 189 Hyde : 0 0.0 266 Iredell : 0 0.0 561 Johnston : 0 0.0 274 Jones : 1 503.4 152 Lee : 0 0.0 500 Lenoir : 2 487.4 138 Lincoln : 0 0.0 575 Martin : 1 500.0 107 Montgomery : 0 0.0 614 Nash : 1 519.9 121 Northampton : 6 498.0 75 Onslow : 0 0.0 328 Pamlico : 0 0.0 330 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Pasquotank : 0 0.0 365 Pender : 0 0.0 592 Perquimans : 1 496.7 219 Pitt : 2 502.9 122 Robeson : 3 511.4 139 Rowan : 0 0.0 503 Rutherford : 1 441.1 574 Sampson : 5 493.5 62 Scotland : 2 490.2 188 Stanly : 1 507.4 293 Tyrrell : 0 0.0 462 Union : 0 0.0 298 Wake : 0 0.0 568 Washington : 0 0.0 283 Wayne : 1 497.0 169 Wilson : 1 500.0 140 Yadkin : 0 0.0 611 : North Carolina : 50 495.7 : Alfalfa : 0 0.0 615 Atoka : 0 0.0 617 Beckham : 4 497.2 366 Bryan : 1 494.0 595 Caddo : 4 486.4 448 Canadian : 1 480.0 519 Cleveland : 0 0.0 593 Coal : 0 0.0 618 Comanche : 0 0.0 463 Cotton : 1 490.0 509 Custer : 2 504.1 525 Garvin : 0 0.0 571 Grady : 1 498.3 569 Grant : 0 0.0 530 Greer : 2 500.8 339 Harmon : 3 485.3 170 Jackson : 5 483.9 46 Jefferson : 0 0.0 619 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Kay : 0 0.0 331 Kingfisher : 0 0.0 594 Kiowa : 3 487.6 280 Love : 0 0.0 596 Mcclain : 3 466.5 570 Okmulgee : 0 0.0 576 Pottawatomie : 0 0.0 616 Roger Mills : 0 0.0 501 Tillman : 3 490.8 243 Wagoner : 0 0.0 489 Washita : 6 497.8 287 : Oklahoma : 39 486.6 : Abbeville : 0 0.0 562 Aiken : 1 483.5 282 Allendale : 1 491.0 304 Anderson : 0 0.0 553 Bamberg : 0 0.0 213 Barnwell : 1 491.5 368 Berkeley : 0 0.0 563 Calhoun : 3 488.6 129 Chester : 0 0.0 441 Chesterfield : 0 0.0 473 Clarendon : 3 487.2 198 Colleton : 0 0.0 477 Darlington : 3 488.1 126 Dillon : 2 492.5 185 Dorchester : 0 0.0 307 Edgefield : 0 0.0 380 Florence : 0 0.0 216 Georgetown : 0 0.0 520 Hampton : 1 485.0 166 Horry : 0 0.0 464 Kershaw : 0 0.0 502 Laurens : 0 0.0 597 Lee : 5 471.5 142 Lexington : 0 0.0 409 Marion : 0 0.0 353 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Marlboro : 4 497.3 103 Orangeburg : 4 484.2 95 Saluda : 1 486.5 439 Sumter : 5 489.4 276 Williamsburg : 1 500.0 164 York : 1 488.0 390 : South Carolina : 36 487.2 : Carroll : 1 486.2 291 Chester : 0 0.0 321 Crockett : 8 485.0 34 Dyer : 1 490.0 112 Fayette : 3 498.9 94 Franklin : 0 0.0 402 Gibson : 5 490.8 106 Giles : 0 0.0 451 Hardeman : 2 497.0 235 Hardin : 0 0.0 521 Haywood : 9 491.1 24 Henderson : 0 0.0 510 Henry : 0 0.0 534 Lake : 1 490.2 239 Lauderdale : 4 485.1 119 Lincoln : 1 485.0 381 Madison : 2 482.1 104 Maury : 0 0.0 620 Mcnairy : 0 0.0 526 Obion : 0 0.0 356 Rutherford : 0 0.0 504 Shelby : 0 0.0 228 Tipton : 4 498.0 72 Weakley : 0 0.0 516 : Tennessee : 41 490.2 : Anderson : 0 0.0 466 Andrews : 0 0.0 268 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Atascosa : 0 0.0 558 Austin : 0 0.0 427 Bailey : 8 499.8 56 Bastrop : 0 0.0 600 Baylor : 2 492.5 361 Bee : 0 0.0 432 Bell : 0 0.0 349 Borden : 1 0.0 217 Brazoria : 3 488.5 272 Brazos : 3 482.7 281 Briscoe : 3 497.8 151 Brooks : 0 0.0 545 Burleson : 1 493.7 174 Caldwell : 1 490.5 391 Calhoun : 1 494.1 246 Callahan : 0 0.0 621 Cameron : 8 497.4 102 Castro : 7 489.5 47 Childress : 2 480.0 154 Clay : 1 0.0 535 Cochran : 2 490.2 49 Coke : 0 0.0 598 Coleman : 1 0.0 493 Collin : 2 486.0 338 Collingswort : 3 499.5 193 Colorado : 0 0.0 450 Comanche : 0 0.0 555 Concho : 1 492.1 229 Coryell : 0 0.0 578 Cottle : 2 489.0 245 Crosby : 7 495.3 16 Culberson : 1 0.0 Dawson : 11 491.0 15 De Witt : 0 0.0 601 Deaf Smith : 1 488.9 251 Delta : 0 0.0 455 Denton : 0 0.0 505 Dickens : 2 480.0 250 Donley : 1 499.1 271 Duval : 0 0.0 579 Eastland : 0 0.0 517 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : El Paso : 6 490.4 96 Ellis : 3 475.3 161 Erath : 0 0.0 556 Falls : 2 493.0 309 Fisher : 3 493.7 66 Floyd : 10 495.8 21 Foard : 1 495.8 394 Fort Bend : 7 491.0 108 Frio : 0 0.0 437 Gaines : 12 502.0 7 Garza : 2 494.2 145 Glasscock : 2 506.8 69 Grayson : 0 0.0 557 Grimes : 0 0.0 622 Guadalupe : 0 0.0 565 Hale : 17 495.0 8 Hall : 5 500.1 87 Hardeman : 2 498.0 347 Hardin : 0 0.0 536 Harris : 0 0.0 499 Haskell : 7 493.7 77 Hays : 0 0.0 602 Hidalgo : 7 494.3 97 Hill : 4 491.0 181 Hockley : 11 494.4 17 Houston : 1 508.0 382 Howard : 5 500.5 58 Hudspeth : 0 0.0 206 Hunt : 2 473.6 292 Jackson : 1 480.0 183 Jim Wells : 0 0.0 322 Johnson : 0 0.0 435 Jones : 8 498.1 83 Karnes : 0 0.0 384 Kent : 1 494.0 434 Kerr : 0 0.0 599 King : 0 0.0 449 Kinney : 0 0.0 485 Kleberg : 2 497.8 177 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Knox : 4 507.4 167 Lamar : 2 492.4 474 Lamb : 13 500.3 12 Lee : 0 0.0 442 Leon : 0 0.0 623 Limestone : 0 0.0 465 Live Oak : 0 0.0 453 Lubbock : 14 497.8 10 Lynn : 10 474.5 9 Madison : 0 0.0 537 Martin : 8 495.6 33 Matagorda : 1 0.0 147 Mcculloch : 1 485.0 373 Mclennan : 1 475.9 296 Medina : 1 492.2 320 Midland : 1 0.0 165 Milam : 3 481.6 254 Mitchell : 3 499.2 127 Motley : 2 498.1 242 Navarro : 2 484.5 233 Nolan : 1 491.1 131 Nueces : 7 497.0 48 Parker : 0 0.0 564 Parmer : 6 500.5 43 Pecos : 1 478.7 262 Reagan : 0 0.0 182 Red River : 0 0.0 351 Reeves : 2 483.2 236 Refugio : 1 0.0 212 Roberts : 0 0.0 554 Robertson : 4 499.5 194 Runnels : 5 494.3 173 San Patricio : 9 493.4 53 Schleicher : 0 0.0 412 Scurry : 3 483.5 105 Shackelford : 0 0.0 495 Starr : 1 497.0 385 Stephens : 0 0.0 577 Stonewall : 0 0.0 494 Swisher : 5 491.8 86 Taylor : 1 482.3 255 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Terry : 10 495.0 11 Throckmorton : 1 460.0 419 Tom Green : 5 495.8 73 Travis : 0 0.0 392 Upton : 1 494.7 261 Uvalde : 0 0.0 253 Victoria : 0 0.0 260 Walker : 1 498.9 Waller : 0 0.0 452 Washington : 0 0.0 538 Wharton : 6 480.3 84 Wheeler : 0 0.0 429 Wichita : 1 496.7 348 Wilbarger : 5 486.6 278 Willacy : 7 493.2 50 Williamson : 6 497.6 159 Wilson : 0 0.0 496 Yoakum : 5 486.3 23 Young : 1 486.1 478 Zavala : 3 490.6 312 : Texas : 360 493.5 : Accomack : 0 0.0 398 Amelia : 0 0.0 624 Brunswick : 0 0.0 559 Charles City : 0 0.0 410 Dinwiddie : 0 0.0 387 Greensville : 1 489.3 288 Isle of Wigh : 2 484.8 231 King William : 0 0.0 490 King and Que : 0 0.0 506 Lancaster : 0 0.0 625 Northampton : 0 0.0 355 Northumberla : 0 0.0 486 Prince Georg : 0 0.0 507 Southampton : 0 0.0 79 Suffolk City : 1 488.6 234 Surry : 0 0.0 306 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Sussex : 1 482.5 302 : Virginia : 5 486.1 : US TOTAL : 1,153 492.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Withheld to avoid disclosing individual data. Note: County of origin was not determined for approximately 100,100 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 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All cotton : : : : : : US 1/ : 1,153 : CA : 97 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 119 : 1 - 2,999 : 2 3,000 - 4,999 : 96 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 0 5,000 - 6,999 : 98 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 7,000 - 9,999 : 125 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 4 10,000 - 14,999 : 211 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 15 15,000 - 19,999 : 124 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 5 20,000 - 39,999 : 277 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 46 40,000 - and over : 93 : 40,000 - and over : 21 : : : AL : 51 : GA : 77 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 9 : 1 - 2,999 : 2 3,000 - 4,999 : 7 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 5,000 - 6,999 : 7 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 7,000 - 9,999 : 8 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 10,000 - 14,999 : 9 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 14 15,000 - 19,999 : 3 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 10 20,000 - 39,999 : 7 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 25 40,000 - and over : 1 : 40,000 - and over : 19 : : : AZ : 51 : LA : 68 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 4 : 1 - 2,999 : 6 3,000 - 4,999 : 7 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 7 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 7 7,000 - 9,999 : 2 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 4 10,000 - 14,999 : 4 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 18 15,000 - 19,999 : 4 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 7 20,000 - 39,999 : 23 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 18 40,000 - and over : 4 : 40,000 - and over : 1 : : : AR : 94 : MS : 127 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 7 : 1 - 2,999 : 12 3,000 - 4,999 : 7 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 4 5,000 - 6,999 : 5 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 11 7,000 - 9,999 : 6 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 18 10,000 - 14,999 : 21 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 30 15,000 - 19,999 : 14 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 17 20,000 - 39,999 : 23 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 31 40,000 - and over : 11 : 40,000 - and over : 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins and Bales Ginned by Size Group, State, and United States, Crop Year 1997 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : : MO : 36 : SC : 36 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 0 : 1 - 2,999 : 6 3,000 - 4,999 : 2 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 5 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 7,000 - 9,999 : 6 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 5 10,000 - 14,999 : 8 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 7 15,000 - 19,999 : 7 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 4 20,000 - 39,999 : 8 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 6 40,000 - and over : 1 : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : : NM : 16 : TN : 41 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 6 : 1 - 2,999 : 1 3,000 - 4,999 : 2 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 5,000 - 6,999 : 0 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 1 7,000 - 9,999 : 4 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 8 10,000 - 14,999 : 2 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 14 15,000 - 19,999 : 2 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 6 20,000 - 39,999 : 0 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 9 40,000 - and over : 0 : 40,000 - and over : 1 : : : NC : 50 : TX : 360 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 3 : 1 - 2,999 : 37 3,000 - 4,999 : 2 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 47 5,000 - 6,999 : 2 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 44 7,000 - 9,999 : 2 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 51 10,000 - 14,999 : 12 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 56 15,000 - 19,999 : 9 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 36 20,000 - 39,999 : 18 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 62 40,000 - and over : 2 : 40,000 - and over : 27 : : : OK : 39 : : : : : 1 - 2,999 : 24 : : 3,000 - 4,999 : 4 : : 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 : : 7,000 - 9,999 : 4 : : 10,000 - 14,999 : 1 : : 15,000 - 19,999 : 0 : : 20,000 - 39,999 : 1 : : 40,000 - and over : 1 : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Total number of gins operating. Data excludes 4 gins in Florida, 1 gin in Kansas, and 5 gins in Virginia. Cotton Ginnings 1997: A total of 18.3 million running bales were ginned during the 1997 season, 1 percent less than 1996's ginnings of 18.4 million bales. The 1997 cotton crop experienced weather extemes in the Delta, Southeast and in Arizona during the season. The Delta and the Carolina's had an early period of dryness, but rainfall received later and October's beneficial weather, resulted in a larger crop than expected earlier in the season. Alabama received heavy rains early in the season which lowered production potential, and Georgia experienced heavy rainfall during harvest, also reducing their production from earlier expectations. There were 1,153 active cotton gins during the 1997 season, down from the 1,214 that operated in 1996. There were 370 ginning firms processing more than 20,000 bales in 1997, compared to 358 the previous season, and 93 of these processed at least 40,000 bales in 1997. Cotton, 1997 Final: All cotton production in the United States totaled 18.8 million bales in 1997, 1 percent less than 1996's production. The 1997 output was the fifth largest crop on record. Upland cotton production, at 18.2 million bales, was 1 percent less than the previous year, while American-Pima production totaled 548,000 bales, up 4 percent from 1996. The area planted to all cotton totaled 13.8 million acres, down 6 percent from 1996, but harvested area at 13.3 million acres, was up 3 percent from the previous year, as a result of the 28 percent abandonment in the 1996 Texas crop. Abandonment totaled 4 percent in 1997, compared to 12 percent the previous year. Yields for the U.S. averaged 680 pounds per harvested acre, the sixth highest yield on record. The Delta States' (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee) plantings lagged behind average due to wet soils and because other row crops were being planted, but seedings were completed in early June. Precipitation was above normal and cooler than normal temperatures prevailed during the early season, slowing crop development. October's beneficial temperatures and open weather allowed the bolls to finish opening, and yields were higher than had been expected earlier in the season. Harvest exceeded the 5-year average pace in Louisiana and Mississippi, and in early November Louisiana had 98 percent of the crop harvested, 6 points ahead of the 5-year average. Mississippi producers were 85 percent complete, 1 point above average. Harvest in the other States in this region was about three-fourths finished, slightly behind their normal pace. Boll weights ranked eighth in Arkansas, ninth in Louisiana, and seventh in Mississippi compared to the previous 10 years. Planted and harvested acreages in this this region were down 13 percent from 1996, at 3.44 million acres and 3.39 million acres respectively. The region's production was 6 percent less than in 1996, at 5.72 million bales. Yields in the region averaged 809 pounds, up 61 pounds from one year earlier, and Mississippi had a record high yield of 901 pounds per acre. In the Southeastern States (Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina), cotton planted acreage was 2 percent more than in 1996, at 2.94 million acres. The planting pace was behind average early in the season, but a dry period in mid-May allowed producers to exceed the average pace. Early June storms in Georgia and Alabama replenished soil moisture and improved crop condition. Many fields in Georgia and Alabama were replanted due to seedling disease, cool temperatures causing poor stands, and soil crusting from the heavy rains. Alabama was subject to unusual heavy rainfall during the season, as well as cool temperatures. In addition, Hurricane Danny entered into the southwestern portion of the State in late July with torrential rains. Georgia also incurred heavy rains that began in late September and continually hampered harvest activity. All of these States were behind the average harvest progress during the season. Production totaled 3.81 million bales for this region in 1997, a 12 percent decrease from the previous year. The average yield for the region was 649 pounds, down 81 pounds from 1996. Arizona's planted and harvested acres increased by 3 percent from 1996, but California producers decreased planted and harvested acreage by 12 percent. Early planting approval was again granted in Arizona to lessen effects of whitefly. California's seeding pace was well ahead of average most of the season as warm, dry weather prevailed. Eighty-nine percent of Arizona's crop was in good to excellent condition and 90 percent of bolls were opening in early September, which equalled the 5-year average. Cotton development in California remained ahead of average, with 80 percent of the crop showing open bolls compared to an average of 59 percent, in early September. Harvest was slightly behind the 5-year average in Arizona, but slightly ahead of the normal pace for California producers. California's boll weights were second highest since 1988. The three western States produced 3.13 million bales in 1997, 4 percent less than last year, and yields averaged 1,188 pounds per harvested acre, up 44 pounds from 1996. Texas' harvest lagged behind the 5-year average until early November, and by late that month, harvest was 7 points ahead of the average pace of 77 percent. Texas' irrigated fields showed good progress this season, and unusual high amounts of rainfall in May caused the dryland acreage to develop ahead of the average pace. In the Plains, heavy rain and hail during June damaged fields and forced producers to replant, or plant alternative crops. Heavy rains slowed harvest in the Upper Coast, and the later crop showed quality damage from this rainfall. Objective yield survey data indicated the fourth highest boll weights since 1988. Planted acres in Texas was 5.50 million, down 4 percent from 1996, but harvested acreage was up 26 percent, at 5.15 million acres. Production in this region totaled 5.32 million bales, up 19 percent from the previous year. Texas' yield was 479 pounds per harvested acre, down 30 pounds from the record 1996 yield. Cottonseed: Cottonseed production in 1997 totaled 6.93 million tons, down 3 percent from 1996. Released May 12, 1998, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, U.S. Department of Agriculture. For information on "Cotton Ginnings Summary" call (202) 720-5944, office hours 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. The next "Cotton Ginnings Summary" report will be released in May 1999. 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