Cotton Ginnings Press Release

Issue: CG-203-08
Released: March 24, 2008
For information contact: Esmerelda Dickson

Cotton Ginnings:
Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters),
and Equivalent 480-Pound Net Weight Bales Ginned,
by Crop, State, and United States, Crop Years 2006-2007
Crop	State	Running Bales Ginned		Equivalent 480-Pound Net Weight Bales
Crop	State	2006	2007 ^1/	2006	2007
Upland Cotton	AL	668,600	397,300	691,600	409,900
	AZ	516,600	478,500	530,700	490,350
	AR	2,419,500	1,807,150	2,475,450	1,849,700
	CA	777,600	648,750	804,650	672,650
	FL	148,150	102,250	153,250	105,900
	GA	2,285,750	1,620,550	2,358,150	1,672,200
	KS	117,800	51,300	119,450	53,500
	LA	1,257,000	695,800	1,278,750	712,200
	MS	2,029,450	1,271,250	2,079,750	1,300,650
	MO	994,100	785,550	1,015,450	804,550
	NM	39,400	50,350	39,950	51,100
	NC	1,257,600	763,650	1,306,600	791,500
	OK	183,750	281,900	187,400	283,550
	SC	402,650	148,650	416,250	152,800
	TN	1,310,900	586,600	1,346,400	602,100
	TX	5,710,100	8,300,700	5,862,350	8,503,050
	VA	141,500	95,900	145,300	98,050
	US	20,260,450	18,086,150	20,811,450	18,553,750
American Pima Cotton	AZ	13,350	4,450	13,800	4,550
	CA	660,600	766,300	686,900	792,650
	NM	21,650	10,350	22,100	10,500
	TX	41,550	42,150	42,550	43,550
	US	737,150	823,250	765,350	851,250
All Cotton	US	20,997,600	18,909,400	21,576,800	19,405,000
1/ There were 499,353 bales included in this report from the 2007 crop which ginners estimated would be ginned after the March survey, compared with 68,132 bales last year. There were 806 active cotton gins for the 2007 crop year compared with 835 active gins for the 2006 crop year.