Upland Cotton Acreage Down 4 Percent from Last Year

Issue:  PR-139-08
Released:  June 30, 2008
For information contact: Esmerelda Dickson or Betty Johnson.

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Texas Upland cotton acreage for 2008 is estimated at 4.7 million acres, down 4 percent from 2007 and down 27 percent from 2006.  The first forecast of harvested acreage and production will be released on August 12, 2008.  Planted acreage of American Pima cotton is estimated at 20,000 acres, down 20 percent from last year.

Sorghum planted acreage is expected to total 2.6 million acres, down 5 percent from last year.  Producers expect to harvest 2.25 million acres, down 8 percent from 2007.

Planted acreage of corn is estimated at 2.45 million acres, up 14 percent from 2007; harvested acreage, at 2.25 million acres, is up 13 percent from last year.

Texas’s peanut planted acreage is estimated at 240,000 acres, up 26 percent from 2007.  Harvested acreage is forecast at 235,000 acres, up 26 percent from 2007.

Rice producers have planted 190,000 acres, up 30 percent from 2007.

Acreage planted to soybeans is estimated at 200,000 acres, up 133 percent from last year.  Producers expect to harvest 185,000 acres, 126 percent more than last year.

Planted acreage of winter wheat, at 5.9 million acres, is down 5 percent from last year.  Harvested acreage, at 3.5 million acres, is down 8 percent from last year’s crop and up 3 percent from the May forecast.

Texas's harvested acreage for all hay is estimated at 4.75 million acres, down 11 percent from last year.

Other planted acreage for 2008 include dry beans at 15,000 acres, down 12 percent, sunflowers at 68,000 acres, up 66 percent from the 41,000 acres planted last year and oats at 690,000 acres, down 3 percent from last year.

United States Upland cotton acreage is estimated at 9.04 million acres, down 14 percent from last year and the lowest acreage since 1983.  Corn acreage, at 87.3 million acres, is down 7 percent from 2007.  Sorghum acreage is down 6 percent at 7.27 million acres.

Nationally, producers expect to plant 74.5 million acres of soybeans, up 17 percent from 2007, and 1.46 million acres of peanuts, up 19 percent.

Winter wheat planted acreage is estimated at 46.6 million acres, up 4 percent from 2007.  U.S. producers expect to harvest 40.3 million acres, up 12 percent from last year.