The following are the corrections made to the Cotton Ginnings 1999 Summary dated 5.12.00: COTTON GINNINGS 1999 SUMMARY CORRECTIONS The Cotton Ginnings 1999 Summary has been updated to reflect 8,000 bales (480-lb equivalent) which were incorrectly reported as produced in Missouri. These bales were produced in Arkansas. The United States production was unchanged. I. Running bales produced for Arkansas and Missouri have been corrected. II. Running bales produced have been corrected for selected counties in Arkansas and Missouri. III. County Rankings by Running Bales Produced have been corrected to reflect the changes made in Arkansas and Missouri. ------------------------------------------------ The following is the complete revised text file: United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service Ct Gn 1 (00) a Cotton Ginnings 1999 Summary May 2000 Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, State, and United States, Crop Years 1996-99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : : State : 1996 : 1997 : 1998 : 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 755,850 529,100 538,500 620,650 AZ : 812,850 844,350 600,750 695,900 AR : 1,593,150 1,627,600 1,172,600 1,390,300 CA : 2,687,550 2,558,400 1,466,400 2,127,350 FL 1/ : GA : 2,041,500 1,884,400 1,516,450 1,524,050 KS 1/ : LA : 1,299,450 1,001,950 652,750 918,950 MS : 1,819,250 1,766,450 1,400,900 1,680,400 MO : 557,250 547,250 337,750 450,150 NM : 89,600 79,900 69,600 59,250 NC : 985,100 911,350 1,006,700 802,550 OK : 126,100 178,100 138,450 139,500 SC : 434,000 389,900 334,200 265,000 TN : 664,100 646,850 530,600 574,300 TX : 4,294,450 5,080,350 3,558,550 5,020,450 VA : 153,000 131,400 133,850 133,950 : US : 18,438,550 18,301,050 13,533,950 16,528,050 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 72,450 41,200 25,400 16,000 CA : 360,200 422,450 340,550 580,100 NM : 14,450 10,400 6,750 6,500 TX : 62,900 57,150 54,050 47,550 : US : 510,000 531,200 426,750 650,150 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Not published to avoid disclosing individual gins, but included in the U.S. totals. Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Produced and Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, by Type, State, and United States, Crop Years 1998-99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : Equivalent 480-Pound Type : Running Bales Produced : Bales Ginned and :-------------------------------------------------------------- State : 1998 : 1999 : 1998 : 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 535,950 601,000 555,000 644,700 AZ : 616,800 715,400 618,150 712,350 AR : 1,189,550 1,406,300 1,191,650 1,410,300 CA : 1,450,400 2,107,900 1,515,200 2,202,550 FL 1/ : 78,100 109,900 GA : 1,494,350 1,520,300 1,564,150 1,570,700 KS 1/ : 13,950 21,650 LA : 627,800 887,600 665,650 932,350 MS : 1,409,400 1,694,050 1,435,050 1,716,800 MO : 344,250 463,850 343,150 457,950 NM : 89,150 118,900 70,500 59,600 NC : 993,800 791,000 1,039,000 828,150 OK : 136,150 139,350 142,300 143,000 SC : 341,600 273,800 342,200 271,750 TN : 532,450 577,500 543,400 590,450 TX : 3,536,850 4,958,600 3,672,700 5,160,600 VA : 143,400 140,950 135,400 135,700 : US : 13,533,950 16,528,050 13,912,250 16,966,200 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 25,350 15,800 26,750 16,600 CA : 340,600 580,400 352,750 602,450 NM : 9,750 10,600 6,900 6,550 TX : 51,050 43,350 55,750 48,850 : US : 426,750 650,150 442,150 674,450 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : October 1 : October 15 : November 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 77,900 194,800 348,200 AZ : 27,100 68,750 177,750 AR : 335,700 728,600 1,154,850 CA 1/ : 73,150 516,800 FL 1/ : 5,000 46,400 GA : 63,900 188,150 501,300 LA : 277,700 552,950 807,950 MS : 470,900 924,100 1,417,550 MO : 135,700 290,300 415,200 NM 1/ : 13,650 NC 1/ : 13,650 103,400 OK : 2,250 16,550 52,500 SC : 4,000 26,500 80,000 TN : 152,800 325,550 484,750 TX : 1,134,550 1,464,300 2,118,800 VA : 0 3,000 23,750 : US : 2,689,850 4,885,350 8,262,850 : Amer-Pima : AZ 1/ : CA : 0 2,850 67,000 NM 1/ : 0 0 TX 1/ : 0 5,600 : US 1/ : 5,200 77,150 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : November 15 : December 1 : December 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 470,750 548,050 595,400 AZ : 296,750 408,450 509,300 AR : 1,345,450 1,376,850 1,388,400 CA : 1,003,200 1,462,000 1,783,800 FL : 71,700 96,000 104,450 GA : 808,050 1,141,850 1,392,400 LA : 899,200 916,700 918,600 MS : 1,607,750 1,672,050 1,678,700 MO : 444,400 449,300 450,050 NM : 29,550 42,800 54,400 NC : 297,250 536,900 714,050 OK : 83,150 106,900 122,000 SC : 148,000 213,200 249,400 TN : 557,950 572,150 573,800 TX : 2,880,950 3,736,150 4,331,000 VA : 61,450 99,750 125,900 : US : 11,005,550 13,379,100 14,996,650 : Amer-Pima : AZ 1/ : 9,200 12,500 CA : 159,400 257,600 351,650 NM 1/ : 3,450 5,650 TX : 15,400 25,600 32,850 : US : 183,250 295,850 402,650 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : January 1 : January 15 : February 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 614,300 619,600 620,350 AZ : 590,100 651,050 686,150 AR : 1,388,700 1,389,350 1,389,350 CA : 1,954,700 2,039,550 2,093,650 FL 1/ : GA : 1,485,050 1,516,500 1,522,700 KS 1/ : LA : 918,600 918,950 918,950 MS : 1,680,150 1,680,150 1,680,150 MO : 450,050 450,100 450,150 NM : 58,700 59,150 59,200 NC : 782,550 797,450 801,600 OK : 131,650 134,450 137,250 SC : 260,800 262,650 264,650 TN : 574,150 574,150 574,150 TX : 4,821,600 4,971,550 5,010,750 VA : 133,100 133,650 133,950 : US : 15,965,150 16,321,650 16,467,700 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 14,000 14,650 15,400 CA : 436,150 499,600 547,150 NM : 6,250 6,400 6,450 TX : 40,300 46,000 47,550 : US : 496,700 566,650 616,550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : : Autauga 1/: 11,700 Baldwin 1/: 26,250 Barbour : 0 0 7,500 Blount 1/: 1,950 Bullock : 0 0 550 Butler : 0 0 4,400 Calhoun : 0 0 2,050 Chambers : 0 0 750 Cherokee 1/: 14,700 Chilton 1/: 1,500 Choctaw : 0 0 450 Clarke : 0 0 600 Coffee 1/: 15,150 Colbert 1/: 25,500 Conecuh : 0 0 5,350 Covington 1/: 20,300 Crenshaw 1/: 3,200 Cullman : 0 0 2,600 Dale : 0 0 7,500 Dallas 1/: 16,350 Dekalb 1/: 0 0 Elmore 1/: 15,050 Escambia 1/: 43,450 Etowah : 0 0 3,300 Fayette 1/: 1,700 Franklin : 0 0 550 Geneva 1/: 15,000 Greene 1/: 800 Hale : 0 0 1,250 Henry 1/: 17,750 Houston 1/: 17,350 Jackson : 0 0 1,900 Lamar : 0 0 950 Lauderdale 1/: 16,150 Lawrence 1/: 35,200 Lee : 0 0 3,100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Limestone : 80,300 84,250 76,000 Lowndes 1/: 5,150 Macon 1/: 7,050 Madison : 35,850 37,650 49,450 Marengo 1/: 4,450 Marion : 0 0 400 Marshall 1/: 0 0 Mobile 1/: 19,050 Monroe 1/: 41,250 Montgomery : 0 0 3,000 Morgan : 0 0 1,900 Perry : 0 0 1,600 Pickens 1/: 0 0 Pike : 0 0 9,750 Russell 1/: 7,000 Shelby : 0 0 6,000 Talladega : 0 0 10,850 Tallapoosa 1/: 2,250 Tuscaloosa 1/: 5,550 Washington : 0 0 1,600 Wilcox : 0 0 2,050 Winston 1/: 0 0 Other 2/: 4,150 : Alabama : 620,650 644,700 601,000 : Cochise 1/: 6,150 Graham 1/: 48,250 Greenlee : 0 0 1,150 La Paz 1/: 47,350 Maricopa : 260,550 263,950 220,750 Mohave 1/: 11,350 Pima 1/: 35,750 Pinal : 252,750 259,550 284,000 Yuma : 62,100 63,800 60,650 : Arizona : 695,900 712,350 715,400 : Arkansas : 0 0 900 Ashley : 88,850 89,600 92,800 Chicot 1/: 56,950 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Clay 1/: 35,500 Craighead : 162,250 161,700 153,300 Crittenden : 72,800 73,350 72,700 Cross 1/: 2,850 Desha : 190,000 191,200 162,950 Drew 1/: 33,700 Greene 1/: 20,400 Jackson : 0 0 5,150 Jefferson : 69,150 70,150 73,650 Lafayette 1/: 8,750 Lee 1/: 50,450 Lincoln 1/: 57,150 Lonoke : 52,100 52,950 48,000 Miller : 0 0 2,750 Mississippi : 285,350 291,050 270,600 Monroe 1/: 21,750 Phillips : 155,000 157,600 130,050 Poinsett : 79,650 81,300 74,700 Prairie 1/: 1,500 Pulaski : 0 0 800 Saint Franci : 38,500 40,000 22,050 Woodruff 1/: 6,900 : Arkansas : 1,390,300 1,410,300 1,406,300 : Colusa 1/: 14,750 Fresno 1/: 757,950 788,750 749,850 Glenn : 0 0 Imperial 1/: 27,850 Kern : 402,850 416,050 459,050 Kings : 446,500 461,400 430,350 Madera 1/: 61,500 Merced : 158,450 164,150 173,450 Riverside 1/: 32,850 San Bernardi : 0 0 1,500 Sutter 1/: 1,200 Tehama 1/: 0 0 Tulare : 206,350 212,250 152,000 Yolo : 0 0 2,300 : California : 2,127,350 2,202,550 2,107,900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Calhoun : 0 0 2,700 Columbia 1/: 0 0 Escambia 1/: 21,150 Gadsen : 0 0 1,050 Gilchrist 1/: 0 0 Hamilton : 0 0 1,100 Holmes : 0 0 1,000 Jackson 1/: 26,000 Jefferson : 0 0 650 Madison : 0 0 300 Okaloosa : 0 0 7,850 Santa Rosa 1/: 43,950 Walton : 0 0 2,400 Washington : 0 0 1,450 : Florida 1/: 109,900 : Appling 1/: 41,000 Atkinson : 0 0 15,700 Bacon : 0 0 12,050 Baker : 0 0 29,550 Bartow 1/: 2,750 Ben Hill : 0 0 11,700 Berrien 1/: 24,800 Bibb : 0 0 400 Bleckley 1/: 14,900 Blinch 1/: 0 0 Brooks 1/: 46,000 Bryan : 0 0 350 Bulloch 1/: 26,300 Burke : 39,150 40,350 20,450 Calhoun 1/: 35,350 Candler 1/: 8,150 Clay : 0 0 9,000 Coffee 1/: 52,300 Colquitt : 225,300 232,450 98,550 Cook : 0 0 27,450 Crawford 1/: 0 0 Crisp 1/: 35,550 Decatur 1/: 62,300 Dodge 1/: 17,750 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Dooly : 108,150 110,950 75,850 Dougherty : 0 0 13,950 Early 1/: 49,800 Effingham : 0 0 3,600 Elbert : 0 0 1,950 Emanuel : 0 0 9,600 Evans : 0 0 4,000 Floyd : 0 0 2,850 Glascock : 0 0 450 Grady : 0 0 41,050 Hart : 0 0 500 Henry : 0 0 1,250 Houston : 0 0 11,200 Irwin 1/: 34,150 Jeff Davis 1/: 24,450 Jefferson 1/: 10,150 Jenkins : 0 0 8,450 Johnson : 0 0 2,650 Lamar : 0 0 350 Lanier : 0 0 7,450 Laurens 1/: 5,900 Lee 1/: 34,650 Lowndes 1/: 10,050 Macon : 0 0 17,650 Marion 1/: 0 0 McDuffie : 0 0 350 Miller 1/: 33,950 Mitchell 1/: 72,650 Monroe 1/: 0 0 Montgomery : 0 0 3,400 Morgan 1/: 1,000 Oconee 1/: 0 0 Peach : 0 0 4,800 Pierce : 0 0 19,950 Polk : 0 0 2,050 Pulaski 1/: 28,200 Quitman : 0 0 1,150 Randolph 1/: 15,750 Richmond : 0 0 400 Schley : 0 0 750 Screven 1/: 14,400 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Seminole 1/: 37,750 Stewart : 0 0 4,450 Sumter 1/: 30,800 Tattnall : 0 0 5,350 Taylor 1/: 4,400 Telfair : 0 0 4,850 Terrell 1/: 19,150 Thomas 1/: 38,500 Tift 1/: 31,300 Toombs : 0 0 7,300 Treutlen : 0 0 3,250 Troup 1/: 0 0 Turner 1/: 30,550 Twiggs : 0 0 4,000 Walton : 0 0 400 Ware : 0 0 5,650 Washington : 0 0 1,800 Wayne : 0 0 17,300 Webster : 0 0 3,800 Wheeler : 0 0 2,350 Wilcox 1/: 32,550 Wilkinson : 0 0 300 Worth 1/: 70,500 : Georgia : 1,524,050 1,570,700 1,520,300 : : Kansas 1/: 21,650 : : Avoyelles 1/: 15,050 Bienville : 0 0 700 Bossier : 0 0 2,650 Caddo : 29,800 30,850 20,500 Caldwell : 0 0 10,500 Catahoula : 63,500 64,350 76,050 Claiborne 1/: 0 0 Concordia : 74,250 75,350 73,750 Desoto : 0 0 1,300 East Baton r 1/: 0 0 East Carroll : 100,350 100,850 63,800 East Felicia : 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Evangeline : 0 0 2,800 Franklin : 119,550 121,600 96,750 Grant : 0 0 1,600 Lasalle 1/: 0 0 Madison 1/: 83,550 Morehouse : 109,450 111,150 83,100 Natchitoches : 0 0 6,000 Ouachita 1/: 19,200 Pointe Coupe 1/: 11,950 Rapides : 36,500 36,750 29,750 Red River 1/: 8,000 Richland : 95,650 96,400 67,850 Saint Landry : 0 0 6,000 Tensas : 135,550 139,150 152,950 Union 1/: 0 0 Webster : 0 0 350 West Carroll 1/: 52,000 West Felicia : 0 0 450 : Louisiana : 918,950 932,350 887,600 : Adams : 0 0 7,450 Alcorn : 0 0 1,350 Attala : 0 0 7,850 Benton 1/: 750 Bolivar : 115,100 117,350 114,900 Calhoun 1/: 28,200 Carroll 1/: 24,400 Chickasaw 1/: 7,550 Choctaw : 0 0 1,050 Claiborne : 0 0 3,400 Clay : 0 0 3,500 Coahoma : 146,450 148,250 130,000 Copiah : 0 0 2,750 Covington : 0 0 950 Desoto 1/: 18,450 George : 0 0 9,250 Greene : 0 0 550 Grenada 1/: 12,400 Hinds 1/: 21,700 Holmes : 109,200 110,950 101,400 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Humphreys : 87,950 89,350 108,000 Issaquena 1/: 26,450 Itawamba : 0 0 1,050 Jackson : 0 0 300 Jefferson 1/: 8,050 Jones 1/: 0 0 Lafayette 1/: 7,000 Leake : 0 0 1,400 Lee 1/: 4,700 Leflore : 158,900 164,500 138,450 Lowndes : 0 0 4,850 Madison 1/: 34,350 Marshall 1/: 0 0 Monroe 1/: 11,500 Montgomery 1/: 11,650 Newton : 0 0 500 Noxubee : 0 0 5,450 Oktibbeha : 0 0 1,050 Panola : 44,850 46,700 45,400 Pike : 0 0 2,150 Pontotoc 1/: 3,750 Prentiss : 0 0 2,100 Quitman : 51,550 52,250 46,900 Rankin 1/: 8,200 Scott : 0 0 4,600 Sharkey 1/: 87,100 Smith 1/: 0 0 Sunflower : 117,250 119,950 98,200 Tallahatchie : 94,500 96,650 115,650 Tate 1/: 12,450 Tippah 1/: 1,550 Tishomingo : 0 0 1,250 Tunica : 62,700 64,150 76,500 Union : 0 0 1,050 Warren 1/: 17,100 Washington : 134,500 138,850 129,250 Webster 1/: 20,150 Wilkinson : 0 0 550 Yalobusha 1/: 11,900 Yazoo : 174,850 178,300 145,250 : Mississippi : 1,680,400 1,716,800 1,694,050 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Butler 1/: 0 0 Dade 1/: 0 0 Dunklin : 172,250 174,950 183,700 Mississippi 1/: 0 0 New Madrid : 133,700 136,500 113,650 Pemiscot : 97,250 98,450 99,550 Scott 1/: 12,550 Stoddard 1/: 46,700 Other 2/: 6,800 : Missouri : 450,150 457,950 463,850 : Chaves 1/: 9,550 Curry : 0 0 18,650 Dona Ana : 26,000 26,100 28,950 Eddy 1/: 17,300 Hidalgo 1/: 0 0 Lea : 0 0 11,950 Luna 1/: 9,600 Quay : 0 0 5,400 Roosevelt : 0 0 17,150 Sierra 1/: 0 0 Other 2/: 50 : New Mexico : 59,250 59,600 118,900 : Anson 1/: 4,500 Beaufort 1/: 18,600 Bertie 1/: 37,550 Bladen : 0 0 8,800 Brunswick : 0 0 400 Cabarrus : 0 0 2,650 Camden : 0 0 1,700 Carteret : 0 0 1,650 Chatham : 0 0 350 Chowan : 0 0 23,600 Cleveland 1/: 2,200 Columbus 1/: 3,200 Craven 1/: 15,050 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Cumberland : 0 0 6,600 Currituck : 0 0 1,300 Davidson 1/: 0 0 Duplin 1/: 22,450 Edgecombe 1/: 31,200 Franklin 1/: 0 0 Gates 1/: 24,650 Greene 1/: 19,900 Halifax : 61,100 62,600 60,900 Harnett 1/: 10,800 Hertford 1/: 24,150 Hoke 1/: 13,900 Hyde 1/: 21,250 Iredell : 0 0 1,000 Johnston : 0 0 10,400 Jones 1/: 18,250 Lee : 0 0 1,900 Lenoir 1/: 32,250 Martin 1/: 40,950 Montgomery : 0 0 6,950 Moore 1/: 0 0 Nash 1/: 17,550 Northampton : 71,150 73,900 70,350 Onslow : 0 0 3,150 Pamlico : 0 0 3,850 Pasquotank : 0 0 8,250 Pender : 0 0 2,050 Perquimans 1/: 18,700 Pitt 1/: 30,400 Richmond : 0 0 350 Robeson : 38,250 41,150 25,400 Rowan : 0 0 1,350 Rutherford 1/: 450 Sampson : 43,000 43,750 30,750 Scotland 1/: 19,650 Stanly 1/: 17,600 Tyrrell : 0 0 2,950 Union : 0 0 12,150 Wake : 0 0 350 Warren 1/: 0 0 Washington : 0 0 14,100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Wayne 1/: 22,350 Wilson 1/: 19,500 : North Carolina : 802,550 828,150 791,000 : Alfalfa : 0 0 1,200 Beckham 1/: 5,550 Bryan 1/: 0 Caddo : 1,950 2,000 1,750 Canadian : 0 0 950 Coal 1/: 0 0 Comanche : 0 0 300 Cotton : 0 0 300 Custer 1/: 2,300 Garfield : 0 0 1,750 Garvin 1/: 0 0 Grady 1/: 700 Grant : 0 0 2,500 Greer 1/: 6,250 Harmon : 22,450 22,950 26,200 Jackson : 58,700 60,100 55,200 Kay 1/: 6,100 Kiowa : 8,300 8,450 7,750 Mcclain 1/: 850 Noble 1/: 0 0 Oklahoma 1/: 0 0 Roger Mills : 0 0 1,700 Tillman 1/: 6,950 Wagoner 1/: 0 0 Washita : 6,750 6,850 9,850 Woods : 0 0 500 : Oklahoma : 139,500 143,000 139,350 : Abbeville 1/: 0 0 Aiken : 0 0 5,100 Allendale 1/: 6,500 Anderson : 0 0 400 Bamberg : 0 0 12,900 Barnwell 1/: 6,200 Berkeley : 0 0 650 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Calhoun : 52,450 53,650 28,200 Cherokee 1/: 0 0 Chester : 0 0 1,450 Chesterfield : 0 0 300 Clarendon : 18,500 19,200 5,400 Colleton : 0 0 2,650 Darlington 1/: 37,850 Dillon 1/: 16,350 Dorchester : 0 0 6,650 Edgefield : 0 0 650 Fairfield 1/: 0 0 Florence : 0 0 5,550 Hampton 1/: 17,250 Horry : 0 0 400 Kershaw 1/: 0 0 Lancaster 1/: 0 0 Laurens 1/: 0 0 Lee : 25,500 25,900 19,700 Lexington : 0 0 1,400 Marion : 0 0 3,200 Marlboro : 28,350 29,400 28,850 Newberry : 0 0 950 Orangeburg : 46,800 47,650 37,100 Richland 1/: 0 0 Saluda 1/: 1,450 Sumter : 9,200 9,200 7,650 Union 1/: 0 0 Williamsburg 1/: 16,550 York 1/: 1,600 : South Carolina : 265,000 271,750 273,800 : Carroll 1/: 13,400 Chester : 0 0 2,100 Coffee : 0 0 400 Crockett : 94,100 96,450 84,150 Dyer 1/: 34,800 Fayette 1/: 45,950 Franklin : 0 0 9,000 Gibson : 43,700 44,800 36,550 Giles : 0 0 2,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Hardeman 1/: 15,600 Hardin : 0 0 550 Haywood : 159,400 164,000 114,850 Henderson : 0 0 1,250 Henry : 0 0 300 Lake 1/: 13,750 Lauderdale : 55,200 57,000 51,050 Lawrence 1/: 0 0 Lincoln 1/: 7,800 Madison 1/: 47,250 Mcnairy : 0 0 900 Moore 1/: 0 0 Obion : 0 0 4,800 Rutherford : 0 0 1,600 Shelby : 0 0 20,850 Tipton : 83,100 86,400 67,750 Weakley : 0 0 550 : Tennessee : 574,300 590,450 577,500 : Anderson : 0 0 21,800 Andrews : 0 0 13,800 Archer 1/: 0 0 Austin : 0 0 5,950 Bailey : 98,600 101,500 61,050 Bastrop : 0 0 600 Baylor : 0 0 1,650 Bee : 0 0 6,800 Bell : 0 0 5,400 Borden 1/: 5,850 Brazoria : 24,600 26,100 9,700 Brazos 1/: 11,650 Briscoe : 27,500 28,800 10,050 Brown : 0 0 850 Burleson 1/: 29,200 Caldwell 1/: 2,350 Calhoun 1/: 47,600 Cameron : 66,450 68,400 72,450 Castro : 55,400 56,100 64,200 Childress 1/: 29,400 Clay 1/: 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Cochran 1/: 81,350 Coke 1/: Coleman : 0 0 1,850 Collin 1/: 2,550 Collingswort 1/: 20,600 Colorado : 0 0 4,100 Concho 1/: 10,600 Cottle 1/: 7,350 Crosby : 160,550 166,100 156,700 Culberson 1/: 1,050 Dawson : 174,850 177,850 190,150 De Witt : 0 0 350 Deaf Smith 1/: 30,900 Delta : 0 0 500 Denton : 0 0 550 Dickens 1/: 12,550 Dimmit 1/: 0 0 Donley 1/: 3,000 El Paso 1/: 45,100 Ellis : 23,700 24,350 23,950 Falls 1/: 7,400 Fisher 1/: 29,950 Floyd : 128,750 134,550 142,400 Foard : 0 0 1,500 Fort Bend : 81,500 83,650 68,600 Frio : 0 0 8,800 Gaines : 285,800 294,750 290,100 Garza 1/: 24,350 Glasscock 1/: 44,900 Goliad : 0 0 1,950 Grimes : 0 0 2,150 Guadalupe : 0 0 400 Hale : 371,900 382,200 310,750 Hall : 62,800 65,350 64,700 Hardeman 1/: 5,400 Haskell : 40,300 41,850 34,400 Hays 1/: 0 0 Hidalgo : 51,700 52,800 60,200 Hill 1/: 19,850 Hockley : 202,300 208,350 101,550 Houston 1/: 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Howard : 48,650 50,050 39,900 Hudspeth : 0 0 24,500 Hunt 1/: 1,800 Irion 1/: 0 0 Jackson 1/: 51,700 Jim Wells : 0 0 1,250 Johnson : 0 0 350 Jones : 24,100 24,750 18,350 Kaufman : 0 0 5,500 Kent 1/: 550 King : 0 0 500 Kinney : 0 0 400 Kleberg 1/: 1,450 Knox 1/: 31,250 La Salle 1/: 0 0 Lamar 1/: 3,200 Lamb : 228,200 235,450 198,700 Leon 1/: 0 0 Limestone : 0 0 2,400 Live Oak : 0 0 1,550 Lubbock : 248,200 257,000 181,700 Lynn : 185,050 190,450 139,450 Madison : 0 0 450 Martin : 107,300 110,350 76,050 Mason : 0 0 400 Matagorda 1/: 73,400 Mcculloch 1/: 1,600 Mclennan 1/: 10,500 Medina 1/: 5,400 Midland 1/: 16,400 Milam 1/: 12,450 Mitchell : 18,400 18,750 19,200 Motley 1/: 14,950 Navarro 1/: 13,750 Nolan 1/: 14,900 Nueces : 122,600 127,100 143,300 Parmer : 115,300 118,950 109,350 Pecos 1/: 14,300 Randall 1/: 0 0 Reagan : 0 0 12,500 Red River : 0 0 2,700 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Reeves 1/: 9,450 Refugio 1/: 55,150 Robertson : 24,950 25,400 18,850 Runnels : 28,150 29,200 18,750 San Patricio : 337,550 346,050 259,600 San saba 1/: 0 0 Schleicher : 0 0 1,650 Scurry : 27,650 28,150 27,000 Shackelford : 0 0 500 Starr 1/: 0 Stonewall : 0 0 750 Swisher : 73,650 75,800 89,800 Taylor 1/: 2,100 Terry : 163,150 167,350 173,200 Throckmorton 1/: 450 Tom Green : 45,400 46,200 43,800 Travis : 0 0 1,350 Upton 1/: 8,150 Uvalde : 0 0 8,000 Victoria : 0 0 29,950 Walker 1/: 1,100 Ward 1/: 0 0 Washington : 0 0 300 Wharton : 212,400 216,800 108,900 Wichita 1/: 1,450 Wilbarger : 9,300 9,450 7,800 Willacy : 113,500 116,550 53,950 Williamson : 42,900 42,700 41,350 Wilson : 0 0 1,350 Yoakum : 163,300 165,950 130,050 Young 1/: 600 Zavala 1/: 4,050 Other 2/: 397,900 : Texas : 5,020,450 5,160,600 4,958,600 : Accomack 1/: 2,000 Amelia 1/: 0 0 Brunswick 1/: 0 0 Charles City : 0 0 2,350 Dinwiddie : 0 0 9,300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Greensville 1/: 10,900 Henrico 1/: 0 0 Isle of Wigh 1/: 15,450 King William 1/: 0 0 King and Que 1/: 0 0 New Kent 1/: 0 0 Northampton : 0 0 5,400 Prince Georg 1/: 0 0 Southampton : 0 0 54,700 Suffolk City 1/: 24,400 Surry : 0 0 6,450 Sussex 1/: 7,050 : Virginia : 133,950 135,700 140,950 : : US TOTAL : 16,528,050 16,966,200 16,528,050 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Autauga : 2 513.5 254 Baldwin : 1 497.0 155 Barbour : 0 0.0 300 Blount : 1 485.0 418 Bullock : 0 0.0 510 Butler : 0 0.0 356 Calhoun : 0 0.0 412 Chambers : 0 0.0 495 Cherokee : 4 486.1 232 Chilton : 1 484.0 444 Choctaw : 0 0.0 524 Clarke : 0 0.0 506 Coffee : 1 493.0 223 Colbert : 2 485.6 158 Conecuh : 0 0.0 341 Covington : 1 503.2 183 Crenshaw : 1 489.9 371 Cullman : 0 0.0 394 Dale : 0 0.0 301 Dallas : 2 565.1 216 Dekalb : 0 0.0 563 Elmore : 3 494.6 224 Escambia : 1 502.4 103 Etowah : 0 0.0 369 Fayette : 1 498.6 430 Franklin : 0 0.0 509 Geneva : 2 491.0 227 Greene : 1 500.0 491 Hale : 0 0.0 461 Henry : 2 489.0 203 Houston : 1 491.3 208 Jackson : 0 0.0 422 Lamar : 0 0.0 483 Lauderdale : 2 494.8 218 Lawrence : 4 501.2 120 Lee : 0 0.0 377 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Limestone : 6 503.7 53 Lowndes : 1 503.0 343 Macon : 1 480.0 307 Madison : 3 504.1 88 Marengo : 1 486.3 354 Marion : 0 0.0 530 Marshall : 0 0.0 594 Mobile : 1 504.5 194 Monroe : 1 491.8 105 Montgomery : 0 0.0 378 Morgan : 0 0.0 421 Perry : 0 0.0 436 Pickens : 0 0.0 564 Pike : 0 0.0 272 Russell : 2 484.0 309 Shelby : 0 0.0 323 Talladega : 0 0.0 262 Tallapoosa : 1 497.6 404 Tuscaloosa : 1 499.3 330 Washington : 0 0.0 437 Wilcox : 0 0.0 413 Winston : 0 0.0 607 : Alabama : 51 498.6 : Cochise : 1 485.9 321 Graham : 4 502.6 89 Greenlee : 0 0.0 468 La Paz : 2 498.8 92 Maricopa : 14 486.3 9 Mohave : 2 486.2 259 Pima : 2 496.7 116 Pinal : 18 492.9 6 Yuma : 4 493.1 74 : Arizona : 47 491.3 : Arkansas : 0 0.0 487 Ashley : 6 484.1 43 Chicot : 2 488.5 77 Clay : 3 481.5 118 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Craighead : 8 478.3 18 Crittenden : 5 483.7 59 Cross : 1 521.0 381 Desha : 6 483.0 16 Drew : 1 484.6 127 Greene : 3 480.1 182 Jackson : 0 0.0 344 Jefferson : 9 487.0 57 Lafayette : 2 501.1 284 Lee : 1 503.3 86 Lincoln : 1 500.2 76 Lonoke : 7 487.7 90 Miller : 0 0.0 384 Mississippi : 13 489.6 7 Monroe : 2 480.0 174 Phillips : 7 488.0 26 Poinsett : 6 490.0 55 Prairie : 1 475.0 445 Pulaski : 0 0.0 492 Saint Franci : 3 498.7 172 Woodruff : 1 493.9 313 : Arkansas : 88 486.9 : Colusa : 1 491.1 231 Fresno : 27 499.5 1 Glenn : 0 0.0 469 Imperial : 1 490.0 150 Kern : 17 495.7 2 Kings : 15 496.0 3 Madera : 3 502.9 71 Merced : 5 497.3 14 Riverside : 2 489.6 128 San Bernardi : 0 0.0 446 Sutter : 1 500.0 466 Tehama : 0 0.0 595 Tulare : 7 493.7 20 Yolo : 0 0.0 402 : California : 79 497.0 : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Calhoun : 0 0.0 388 Columbia : 0 0.0 608 Escambia : 1 480.1 177 Gadsen : 0 0.0 473 Gilchrist : 0 0.0 565 Hamilton : 0 0.0 471 Holmes : 0 0.0 479 Jackson : 1 502.6 157 Jefferson : 0 0.0 503 Madison : 0 0.0 553 Okaloosa : 0 0.0 293 Santa Rosa : 2 500.2 101 Walton : 0 0.0 397 Washington : 0 0.0 448 : Florida : 4 497.1 : Appling : 2 497.2 107 Atkinson : 0 0.0 220 Bacon : 0 0.0 250 Baker : 0 0.0 142 Bartow : 1 480.0 385 Ben Hill : 0 0.0 255 Berrien : 2 495.7 160 Bibb : 0 0.0 532 Bleckley : 1 496.0 229 Blinch : 0 0.0 596 Brooks : 2 503.7 96 Bryan : 0 0.0 544 Bulloch : 2 485.4 154 Burke : 4 495.0 181 Calhoun : 2 495.0 119 Candler : 2 497.7 288 Clay : 0 0.0 280 Coffee : 2 493.5 82 Colquitt : 7 495.2 40 Cook : 0 0.0 151 Crawford : 0 0.0 610 Crisp : 2 484.7 117 Decatur : 2 496.1 70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Dodge : 1 492.0 204 Dooly : 8 492.5 54 Dougherty : 0 0.0 236 Early : 1 491.4 87 Effingham : 0 0.0 365 Elbert : 0 0.0 419 Emanuel : 0 0.0 274 Evans : 0 0.0 361 Floyd : 0 0.0 382 Glascock : 0 0.0 525 Grady : 0 0.0 106 Hart : 0 0.0 518 Henry : 0 0.0 462 Houston : 0 0.0 260 Irwin : 2 495.8 125 Jeff Davis : 1 503.0 163 Jefferson : 2 505.0 268 Jenkins : 0 0.0 285 Johnson : 0 0.0 390 Lamar : 0 0.0 542 Lanier : 0 0.0 302 Laurens : 2 501.7 327 Lee : 1 484.3 122 Lowndes : 1 496.6 269 Macon : 0 0.0 205 Marion : 0 0.0 566 McDuffie : 0 0.0 543 Miller : 1 492.3 126 Mitchell : 1 493.7 60 Monroe : 0 0.0 567 Montgomery : 0 0.0 367 Morgan : 1 492.0 480 Oconee : 0 0.0 609 Peach : 0 0.0 348 Pierce : 0 0.0 185 Polk : 0 0.0 414 Pulaski : 2 481.9 147 Quitman : 0 0.0 470 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Randolph : 1 498.5 219 Richmond : 0 0.0 533 Schley : 0 0.0 496 Screven : 1 513.1 233 Seminole : 1 497.2 112 Stewart : 0 0.0 355 Sumter : 2 492.1 135 Tattnall : 0 0.0 342 Taylor : 1 487.7 357 Telfair : 0 0.0 346 Terrell : 1 497.0 193 Thomas : 2 493.2 110 Tift : 2 483.1 131 Toombs : 0 0.0 306 Treutlen : 0 0.0 370 Troup : 0 0.0 575 Turner : 2 501.7 137 Twiggs : 0 0.0 360 Walton : 0 0.0 531 Ware : 0 0.0 329 Washington : 0 0.0 425 Wayne : 0 0.0 209 Webster : 0 0.0 363 Wheeler : 0 0.0 399 Wilcox : 1 494.0 129 Wilkinson : 0 0.0 554 Worth : 1 505.0 62 : Georgia : 70 494.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Kansas 1/ : 2 485.0 : Avoyelles : 1 485.4 225 Bienville : 0 0.0 500 Bossier : 0 0.0 391 Caddo : 5 496.7 180 Caldwell : 0 0.0 265 Catahoula : 4 486.6 51 Claiborne : 0 0.0 615 Concordia : 3 487.1 56 Desoto : 0 0.0 459 East Baton r : 0 0.0 568 East Carroll : 11 482.3 69 East Felicia : 0 0.0 555 Evangeline : 0 0.0 383 Franklin : 10 488.2 42 Grant : 0 0.0 438 Lasalle : 0 0.0 579 Madison : 2 475.4 47 Morehouse : 5 487.5 48 Natchitoches : 0 0.0 324 Ouachita : 1 480.0 191 Pointe Coupe : 1 487.7 251 Rapides : 4 483.3 141 Red River : 1 476.8 291 Richland : 10 483.7 65 Saint Landry : 0 0.0 325 Tensas : 7 492.7 19 Union : 0 0.0 578 Webster : 0 0.0 546 West Carroll : 2 496.0 83 West Felicia : 0 0.0 526 : Louisiana : 67 487.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Adams : 0 0.0 303 Alcorn : 0 0.0 455 Attala : 0 0.0 294 Benton : 1 496.5 497 Bolivar : 8 489.4 31 Calhoun : 3 485.7 148 Carroll : 3 490.4 164 Chickasaw : 1 487.0 299 Choctaw : 0 0.0 476 Claiborne : 0 0.0 368 Clay : 0 0.0 366 Coahoma : 7 485.9 28 Copiah : 0 0.0 387 Covington : 0 0.0 484 Desoto : 2 489.2 200 George : 0 0.0 279 Greene : 0 0.0 512 Grenada : 1 487.1 248 Hinds : 2 495.5 175 Holmes : 4 487.6 38 Humphreys : 4 487.7 36 Issaquena : 1 480.0 153 Itawamba : 0 0.0 474 Jackson : 0 0.0 556 Jefferson : 1 475.0 290 Jones : 0 0.0 599 Lafayette : 1 482.5 310 Leake : 0 0.0 453 Lee : 1 500.2 350 Leflore : 10 496.9 25 Lowndes : 0 0.0 347 Madison : 2 480.4 124 Marshall : 0 0.0 580 Monroe : 2 497.5 258 Montgomery : 1 496.6 256 Newton : 0 0.0 519 Noxubee : 0 0.0 334 Oktibbeha : 0 0.0 477 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Panola : 3 499.8 98 Pike : 0 0.0 407 Pontotoc : 2 475.7 364 Prentiss : 0 0.0 409 Quitman : 4 486.4 94 Rankin : 2 495.7 287 Scott : 0 0.0 351 Sharkey : 5 491.6 45 Smith : 0 0.0 598 Sunflower : 7 491.1 41 Tallahatchie : 7 490.8 30 Tate : 1 480.0 246 Tippah : 1 503.4 442 Tishomingo : 0 0.0 463 Tunica : 5 491.0 50 Union : 0 0.0 475 Warren : 1 484.0 213 Washington : 12 495.6 29 Webster : 1 480.0 184 Wilkinson : 0 0.0 511 Yalobusha : 1 492.6 253 Yazoo : 7 489.5 21 : Mississippi : 114 490.4 : Butler : 0 0.0 581 Dade : 0 0.0 534 Dunklin : 12 487.5 12 Mississippi : 0 0.0 547 New Madrid : 9 490.0 33 Pemiscot : 9 486.0 39 Scott : 3 495.6 243 Stoddard : 2 487.9 95 : Missouri : 35 488.3 : Chaves : 1 494.6 276 Curry : 0 0.0 198 Dona Ana : 10 481.7 145 Eddy : 2 480.6 210 Hidalgo : 0 0.0 616 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Lea : 0 0.0 252 Luna : 1 479.0 275 Quay : 0 0.0 335 Roosevelt : 0 0.0 212 Sierra : 0 0.0 569 : New Mexico : 14 483.0 : Anson : 1 500.0 353 Beaufort : 1 486.2 199 Bertie : 2 490.7 113 Bladen : 0 0.0 282 Brunswick : 0 0.0 535 Cabarrus : 0 0.0 392 Camden : 0 0.0 431 Carteret : 0 0.0 433 Chatham : 0 0.0 548 Chowan : 0 0.0 169 Cleveland : 4 495.8 405 Columbus : 1 487.0 372 Craven : 1 493.7 226 Cumberland : 0 0.0 316 Currituck : 0 0.0 460 Davidson : 0 0.0 582 Duplin : 1 489.6 170 Edgecombe : 2 497.3 133 Franklin : 0 0.0 570 Gates : 1 483.9 161 Greene : 1 495.2 186 Halifax : 5 491.8 73 Harnett : 1 498.2 263 Hertford : 1 480.3 167 Hoke : 1 499.6 237 Hyde : 1 481.4 176 Iredell : 0 0.0 481 Johnston : 0 0.0 267 Jones : 1 506.1 202 Lee : 0 0.0 423 Lenoir : 2 495.2 130 Martin : 1 491.5 108 Montgomery : 0 0.0 311 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Moore : 0 0.0 600 Nash : 1 512.3 207 Northampton : 6 498.6 63 Onslow : 0 0.0 376 Pamlico : 0 0.0 362 Pasquotank : 0 0.0 286 Pender : 0 0.0 415 Perquimans : 1 493.5 197 Pitt : 2 498.8 138 Richmond : 0 0.0 550 Robeson : 4 516.4 159 Rowan : 0 0.0 456 Rutherford : 1 436.0 527 Sampson : 3 488.3 136 Scotland : 2 503.3 189 Stanly : 1 493.4 206 Tyrrell : 0 0.0 380 Union : 0 0.0 249 Wake : 0 0.0 549 Warren : 0 0.0 588 Washington : 0 0.0 235 Wayne : 1 0.0 171 Wilson : 1 503.1 190 : North Carolina : 51 495.3 : Alfalfa : 0 0.0 467 Beckham : 4 499.8 331 Bryan : 1 486.2 Caddo : 3 490.5 428 Canadian : 0 0.0 485 Coal : 0 0.0 617 Comanche : 0 0.0 557 Cotton : 0 0.0 558 Custer : 2 500.4 403 Garfield : 0 0.0 429 Garvin : 0 0.0 589 Grady : 1 485.2 501 Grant : 0 0.0 396 Greer : 2 500.5 319 Harmon : 4 490.6 156 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Jackson : 4 491.3 78 Kay : 1 497.5 322 Kiowa : 3 489.0 297 Mcclain : 1 454.8 489 Noble : 0 0.0 571 Oklahoma : 0 0.0 583 Roger Mills : 0 0.0 432 Tillman : 3 487.4 312 Wagoner : 0 0.0 618 Washita : 4 487.2 271 Woods : 0 0.0 520 : Oklahoma : 33 492.0 : Abbeville : 0 0.0 584 Aiken : 0 0.0 345 Allendale : 1 470.2 317 Anderson : 0 0.0 536 Bamberg : 0 0.0 242 Barnwell : 1 494.8 320 Berkeley : 0 0.0 505 Calhoun : 4 491.0 149 Cherokee : 0 0.0 619 Chester : 0 0.0 449 Chesterfield : 0 0.0 559 Clarendon : 3 497.9 336 Colleton : 0 0.0 393 Darlington : 2 488.9 111 Dillon : 2 500.0 217 Dorchester : 0 0.0 315 Edgefield : 0 0.0 504 Fairfield : 0 0.0 622 Florence : 0 0.0 332 Hampton : 1 500.2 211 Horry : 0 0.0 537 Kershaw : 0 0.0 572 Lancaster : 0 0.0 601 Laurens : 0 0.0 620 Lee : 4 487.2 188 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Lexington : 0 0.0 454 Marion : 0 0.0 373 Marlboro : 4 498.1 146 Newberry : 0 0.0 486 Orangeburg : 6 488.7 114 Richland : 0 0.0 590 Saluda : 1 500.7 450 Sumter : 3 480.5 298 Union : 0 0.0 621 Williamsburg : 2 500.0 214 York : 1 482.9 439 : South Carolina : 35 492.2 : Carroll : 1 479.6 241 Chester : 0 0.0 410 Coffee : 0 0.0 538 Crockett : 8 492.0 46 Dyer : 1 490.0 121 Fayette : 2 498.4 97 Franklin : 0 0.0 281 Gibson : 5 492.2 115 Giles : 0 0.0 416 Hardeman : 2 497.2 221 Hardin : 0 0.0 513 Haywood : 9 493.9 32 Henderson : 0 0.0 464 Henry : 0 0.0 560 Lake : 1 489.8 239 Lauderdale : 4 495.5 85 Lawrence : 0 0.0 573 Lincoln : 1 480.0 295 Madison : 2 485.8 93 Mcnairy : 0 0.0 488 Moore : 0 0.0 623 Obion : 0 0.0 349 Rutherford : 0 0.0 440 Shelby : 0 0.0 178 Tipton : 4 499.1 66 Weakley : 0 0.0 514 : Tennessee : 40 493.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Anderson : 0 0.0 173 Andrews : 0 0.0 238 Archer : 0 0.0 585 Austin : 0 0.0 326 Bailey : 7 494.1 72 Bastrop : 0 0.0 508 Baylor : 0 0.0 434 Bee : 0 0.0 314 Bell : 0 0.0 338 Borden : 1 480.0 328 Brazoria : 3 509.6 273 Brazos : 2 484.3 257 Briscoe : 7 502.5 270 Brown : 0 0.0 490 Burleson : 1 465.7 144 Caldwell : 1 480.7 400 Calhoun : 1 498.5 91 Cameron : 7 494.0 61 Castro : 5 486.1 68 Childress : 1 496.5 143 Clay : 1 450.0 561 Cochran : 2 493.6 49 Coke : 1 497.1 591 Coleman : 0 0.0 424 Collin : 1 480.0 395 Collingswort : 5 492.2 179 Colorado : 0 0.0 358 Concho : 1 486.0 264 Cottle : 1 499.1 305 Crosby : 7 496.6 17 Culberson : 1 480.0 478 Dawson : 11 488.2 11 De Witt : 0 0.0 552 Deaf Smith : 1 494.0 134 Delta : 0 0.0 523 Denton : 0 0.0 516 Dickens : 2 487.9 244 Dimmit : 0 0.0 605 Donley : 1 480.0 379 El Paso : 6 491.8 99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Ellis : 5 493.1 168 Falls : 2 487.5 304 Fisher : 3 496.4 139 Floyd : 9 501.6 23 Foard : 0 0.0 447 Fort Bend : 10 492.7 64 Frio : 0 0.0 283 Gaines : 10 495.0 5 Garza : 2 494.0 166 Glasscock : 3 498.1 100 Goliad : 0 0.0 420 Grimes : 0 0.0 408 Guadalupe : 0 0.0 541 Hale : 16 493.3 4 Hall : 5 499.6 67 Hardeman : 2 497.1 337 Haskell : 6 498.2 123 Hays : 0 0.0 625 Hidalgo : 5 490.2 75 Hill : 3 496.8 187 Hockley : 12 494.4 37 Houston : 1 501.7 499 Howard : 4 493.8 109 Hudspeth : 0 0.0 162 Hunt : 2 470.0 426 Irion : 0 0.0 604 Jackson : 1 484.0 84 Jim Wells : 0 0.0 465 Johnson : 0 0.0 551 Jones : 7 492.8 201 Kaufman : 0 0.0 333 Kent : 1 480.0 515 King : 0 0.0 521 Kinney : 0 0.0 539 Kleberg : 2 500.0 452 Knox : 2 507.2 132 La Salle : 0 0.0 592 Lamar : 2 489.2 374 Lamb : 12 495.3 10 Leon : 0 0.0 603 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Limestone : 0 0.0 398 Live Oak : 0 0.0 443 Lubbock : 15 497.0 13 Lynn : 10 494.0 24 Madison : 0 0.0 529 Martin : 7 493.6 52 Mason : 0 0.0 540 Matagorda : 1 485.0 58 Mcculloch : 1 462.0 441 Mclennan : 1 483.1 266 Medina : 1 492.1 339 Midland : 1 498.3 215 Milam : 3 479.0 247 Mitchell : 3 489.3 192 Motley : 2 498.1 228 Navarro : 2 483.3 240 Nolan : 1 495.9 230 Nueces : 6 497.6 22 Parmer : 8 495.1 34 Pecos : 1 480.0 234 Randall : 0 0.0 602 Reagan : 0 0.0 245 Red River : 0 0.0 389 Reeves : 1 485.0 277 Refugio : 1 497.7 79 Robertson : 4 488.6 195 Runnels : 4 497.8 196 San Patricio : 10 492.1 8 San saba : 0 0.0 624 Schleicher : 0 0.0 435 Scurry : 3 489.0 152 Shackelford : 0 0.0 522 Starr : 1 498.0 Stonewall : 0 0.0 498 Swisher : 4 494.1 44 Taylor : 1 495.0 411 Terry : 13 492.4 15 Throckmorton : 2 458.0 528 Tom Green : 5 488.6 102 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Travis : 0 0.0 457 Upton : 1 494.2 289 Uvalde : 0 0.0 292 Victoria : 0 0.0 140 Walker : 1 500.5 472 Ward : 0 0.0 586 Washington : 0 0.0 562 Wharton : 6 489.9 35 Wichita : 1 492.9 451 Wilbarger : 3 486.8 296 Willacy : 4 492.9 81 Williamson : 6 477.9 104 Wilson : 0 0.0 458 Yoakum : 6 487.8 27 Young : 1 485.0 507 Zavala : 3 486.8 359 : Texas : 348 493.4 : Accomack : 1 502.9 417 Amelia : 0 0.0 606 Brunswick : 0 0.0 587 Charles City : 0 0.0 401 Dinwiddie : 0 0.0 278 Greensville : 1 489.3 261 Henrico : 0 0.0 574 Isle of Wigh : 2 479.9 222 King William : 0 0.0 502 King and Que : 0 0.0 482 New Kent : 0 0.0 593 Northampton : 0 0.0 340 Prince Georg : 0 0.0 517 Southampton : 0 0.0 80 Suffolk City : 1 492.4 165 Surry : 0 0.0 318 Sussex : 1 496.5 308 : Virginia : 6 486.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : : US TOTAL : 1,084 492.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Withheld to avoid disclosing individual data. Note: County of origin was not determined for approximately 408,900 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 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All cotton : : : : : : US 1/ : 1,084 : CA : 79 : : : : : : 1 - 2,999 : 123 : 1 - 2,999 : 2 3,000 - 4,999 : 86 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 3 5,000 - 6,999 : 91 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 7,000 - 9,999 : 125 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 2 10,000 - 14,999 : 189 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 4 15,000 - 19,999 : 125 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 10 20,000 - 39,999 : 259 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 43 40,000 - and over : 74 : 40,000 - and over : 12 : : : AL : 51 : GA : 70 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 5 : 1 - 2,999 : 3 3,000 - 4,999 : 11 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 2 5,000 - 6,999 : 8 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 7,000 - 9,999 : 5 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 8 10,000 - 14,999 : 7 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 10 15,000 - 19,999 : 6 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 9 20,000 - 39,999 : 8 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 22 40,000 - and over : 1 : 40,000 - and over : 12 : : : AZ : 47 : LA : 67 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 5 : 1 - 2,999 : 2 3,000 - 4,999 : 4 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 5,000 - 6,999 : 1 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 7,000 - 9,999 : 1 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 13 10,000 - 14,999 : 5 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 19 15,000 - 19,999 : 6 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 12 20,000 - 39,999 : 22 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 14 40,000 - and over : 3 : 40,000 - and over : 3 : : : : : : AR : 88 : MS : 114 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 3 : 1 - 2,999 : 8 3,000 - 4,999 : 13 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 8 5,000 - 6,999 : 6 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 9 7,000 - 9,999 : 6 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 19 10,000 - 14,999 : 21 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 25 15,000 - 19,999 : 12 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 16 20,000 - 39,999 : 19 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 24 40,000 - and over : 8 : 40,000 - and over : 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins and Bales Ginned by Size Group, State, and United States, Crop Year 1999 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MO : 35 : SC : 35 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 2 : 1 - 2,999 : 9 3,000 - 4,999 : 3 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 5 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 6 7,000 - 9,999 : 8 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 10,000 - 14,999 : 7 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 9 15,000 - 19,999 : 6 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 2 20,000 - 39,999 : 6 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 1 40,000 - and over : 0 : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : : NM : 14 : TN : 40 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 4 : 1 - 2,999 : 2 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 7,000 - 9,999 : 2 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 8 10,000 - 14,999 : 3 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 14 15,000 - 19,999 : 0 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 3 20,000 - 39,999 : 0 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 9 40,000 - and over : 0 : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : : NC : 51 : TX : 348 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 4 : 1 - 2,999 : 54 3,000 - 4,999 : 2 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 29 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 34 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 43 10,000 - 14,999 : 9 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 55 15,000 - 19,999 : 10 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 33 20,000 - 39,999 : 19 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 70 40,000 - and over : 0 : 40,000 - and over : 30 : : : : : : OK : 33 : : : : : 1 - 2,999 : 20 : : 3,000 - 4,999 : 3 : : 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 : : 7,000 - 9,999 : 4 : : 10,000 - 14,999 : 1 : : 15,000 - 19,999 : 0 : : 20,000 - 39,999 : 2 : : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Total number of gins operating. Data excludes 4 gins in Florida, 2 gins in Kansas, and 6 gins in Virginia. Cotton Ginnings 1999: A total of 16.5 million running bales were ginned during the 1999 season, 22 percent above 1998's ginnings of 13.5 million bales. Planting activities for 1999 were delayed in the West due to unseasonably cool weather and in the Southeast due to extremely dry conditions. Warm, dry weather in the Delta allowed for accelerated development, but resulted in some deterioration of the condition and quality of the cotton. Harvest progressed well throughout most of the cotton belt, experiencing brief delays in the High Plains due to cool temperatures and in the Carolina's due to excessively wet, muddy fields. There were 1,084 active cotton gins during the 1999 season, down from the 1,113 that operated in 1998. There were 333 ginning firms processing more than 20,000 bales in 1999, compared to 251 the previous season. Cotton, 1999 Final: All cotton production in the United States totaled 17.0 million bales in 1999, 22 percent above the 1998 production level. The 1999 output is the ninth largest crop on record. Upland cotton production, at 16.3 million bales, was 21 percent above the previous year. American-Pima production totaled 674,300 bales, up 52 percent from 1998. The area planted to all cotton totaled 14.9 million acres, up 11 percent from 1998. Harvested area was 13.4 million acres, up 26 percent from last year. The increases in planted acreage are attributable to the favorableness of cotton as an alternative crop during times of low prices. Harvested acreage increased due to more traditional abandonment levels than in 1998, when high abandonment occurred due to extremely dry conditions. Yields for the U.S. averaged 607 pounds per harvested acre. Harvest of Texas cotton progressed normally during the season as conditions were generally dry and open. However, there were brief early harvest delays on the High Plains due to cool temperatures and widely scattered showers. Delays were also experienced late in the harvest season due to blowing, wet snow. Some farmers sprayed to aid in harvest rather than waiting for the first hard freeze, which did not occur until late November. Abandonment of Upland cotton, at 1.05 million acres, is higher than average, but much less than last year's drought affected crop. Hail and wind damage in June resulted in some cotton acreage being replanted to alternative crops. Crop development began slowly, but was on pace with average by the first of August. Heavy rains during early September raised some concerns about regrowth. Cotton objective yield data indicated Texas' crop had the seventh lowest boll weight in the last 10 years. The Delta States (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee) planted 3.74 million acres. This was 16 percent more than in 1998. Harvested area totaled 3.69 million acres. Warm, dry weather accelerated development of the crop, but resulted in deterioration of the condition and quality of the cotton. The dry weather also allowed harvest to progress well ahead of average. On October 31, Arkansas was 15 points ahead of average, at 94 percent harvested. Louisiana reported 99 percent harvested, 7 points ahead of the 5-year average. Mississippi, at 97 percent harvested, was 10 percentage points ahead of average. Missouri and Tennessee both reported 96 percent of their cotton acreage harvested on October 31, twenty-one and 20 points ahead of the 5-year average, respectively. Data from objective yield surveys show boll weights in Arkansas and Mississippi were the lowest in the last ten years, while Louisiana's weight was ranked as the ninth lowest out of the last ten years. Arizona increased the acreage planted to Upland cotton in 1999, while California decreased planted acres. Arizona planted 270,000 acres, an 8 percent increase from last year, while California planted 610,000 acres, 6 percent less than in 1998. Unseasonably cool weather hampered planting activities, resulting in a late developing crop. Despite the slow development, condition ratings remained high throughout the season. Warm, dry weather allowed great harvest progress during October and November, with California being virtually complete by the end of November. January 1 cotton objective yield counts show boll weights in California were the lowest in the last ten years. California producers increased American-Pima planted acres 20 percent from 1998, to 240,000 acres. Planting in the San Joaquin Valley began in late March, but made very little progress until mid-April. The harvest was nearly complete by mid-December and some growers picked a third time in order to get the last few late-opening bolls. Georgia and South Carolina plantings were delayed due to extremely dry conditions. 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