United States Department of Agriculture Cotton Ginnings 1998 Summary May 1999 National Agricultural Statistics Service Ct Gn 1 (99) Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, State, and United States, Crop Years 1995-98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : : State : 1995 : 1996 : 1997 : 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 460,650 755,850 529,100 538,500 AZ : 831,750 812,850 844,350 600,750 AR : 1,452,900 1,593,150 1,627,600 1,172,600 CA : 2,462,350 2,687,550 2,558,400 1,466,400 FL 1/ : GA : 1,908,900 2,041,500 1,884,400 1,516,450 KS 1/ : LA : 1,378,550 1,299,450 1,001,950 652,750 MS : 1,806,850 1,819,250 1,766,450 1,400,900 MO : 477,400 557,250 547,250 337,750 NM : 69,700 89,600 79,900 69,600 NC : 787,950 985,100 911,350 1,006,700 OK : 117,250 126,100 178,100 138,450 SC : 351,900 434,000 389,900 334,200 TN : 713,150 664,100 646,850 530,600 TX : 4,413,500 4,294,450 5,080,350 3,558,550 VA : 128,250 153,000 131,400 133,850 : US : 17,468,500 18,438,550 18,301,050 13,533,950 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 70,750 72,450 41,200 25,400 CA : 215,050 360,200 422,450 340,550 NM : 13,900 14,450 10,400 6,750 TX : 54,950 62,900 57,150 54,050 : US : 354,650 510,000 531,200 426,750 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1997-98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : Equivalent 480-Pound Type : Running Bales Produced : Bales Ginned and :-------------------------------------------------------------- State : 1997 : 1998 : 1997 : 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 533,100 535,950 545,900 555,000 AZ : 865,400 616,800 866,900 618,150 AR : 1,654,650 1,189,550 1,654,750 1,191,650 CA : 2,537,450 1,450,400 2,649,550 1,515,200 FL 1/ : 114,550 78,100 GA : 1,861,900 1,494,350 1,942,100 1,564,150 KS 1/ : 8,450 13,950 LA : 966,000 627,800 1,022,000 665,650 MS : 1,778,300 1,409,400 1,808,400 1,435,050 MO : 555,900 344,250 555,350 343,150 NM : 107,850 89,150 79,750 70,500 NC : 900,300 993,800 941,150 1,039,000 OK : 179,650 136,150 180,550 142,300 SC : 403,950 341,600 395,750 342,200 TN : 647,750 532,450 660,600 543,400 TX : 5,050,450 3,536,850 5,223,250 3,672,700 VA : 135,400 143,400 133,050 135,400 : US : 18,301,050 13,533,950 18,787,600 13,912,250 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 40,600 25,350 42,350 26,750 CA : 423,000 340,600 436,600 352,750 NM : 14,550 9,750 10,500 6,900 TX : 53,050 51,050 58,500 55,750 : US : 531,200 426,750 547,950 442,150 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : October 1 : October 15 : November 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 83,950 188,600 350,200 AZ : 19,700 47,650 114,750 AR : 237,400 605,850 1,018,950 CA 1/ : 160,900 FL : 3,550 11,250 32,450 GA : 111,400 221,400 525,300 LA : 178,450 396,700 580,400 MS : 409,700 863,900 1,262,150 MO : 46,150 133,150 281,800 NM 1/ : 14,000 NC : 77,450 274,900 544,000 OK : 12,700 45,750 75,050 SC : 67,650 128,050 213,350 TN : 128,800 282,000 451,650 TX : 665,900 1,003,200 1,640,700 VA : 10,200 48,600 93,200 : US : 2,056,400 4,264,750 7,358,850 : Amer-Pima : AZ 1/ : 2,900 CA : 0 0 35,150 NM 1/ : 0 0 TX 1/ : 0 : US 1/ : 1,800 40,250 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : November 15 : December 1 : December 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 445,800 497,600 524,600 AZ : 204,900 308,850 410,550 AR : 1,153,400 1,170,850 1,172,250 CA : 555,700 984,150 1,281,900 FL : 54,450 59,750 64,450 GA : 833,350 1,101,650 1,350,850 LA : 643,500 650,350 652,350 MS : 1,370,150 1,391,400 1,393,000 MO : 332,750 336,600 337,500 NM : 23,750 41,700 55,200 NC : 771,300 944,250 1,001,000 OK : 99,050 116,050 122,900 SC : 271,850 307,050 326,600 TN : 512,500 527,050 529,500 TX : 1,967,900 2,740,650 3,202,200 VA : 125,450 131,600 133,550 : US : 9,365,800 11,309,550 12,558,400 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 5,050 10,450 14,500 CA : 95,150 168,000 236,700 NM : 650 2,000 4,250 TX : 8,250 21,100 32,150 : US : 109,100 201,550 287,600 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : January 1 : January 15 : February 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 531,600 536,700 538,200 AZ : 501,350 563,250 593,150 AR : 1,172,300 1,172,300 1,172,300 CA : 1,416,000 1,448,950 1,459,100 FL 1/ : GA : 1,445,400 1,481,000 1,500,700 KS 1/ : LA : 652,400 652,400 652,600 MS : 1,400,150 1,400,150 1,400,900 MO : 337,750 337,750 337,750 NM : 64,400 68,050 69,000 NC : 1,004,250 1,006,150 1,006,150 OK : 131,700 133,650 136,750 SC : 330,050 333,350 333,750 TN : 529,800 529,950 529,950 TX : 3,441,450 3,510,400 3,521,400 VA : 133,550 133,550 133,550 : US : 13,159,700 13,376,350 13,457,500 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 16,600 20,300 24,450 CA : 300,000 326,250 335,450 NM : 6,150 6,600 6,650 TX : 41,100 49,150 53,350 : US : 363,850 402,300 419,900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : : Autauga 1/: 9,050 Baldwin 1/: 8,850 Barbour : 0 0 8,300 Blount 1/: 1,750 Bullock : 0 0 850 Butler : 0 0 1,200 Chambers : 0 0 600 Cherokee 1/: 25,950 Chilton 1/: 1,450 Choctaw : 0 0 650 Clarke : 0 0 300 Coffee 1/: 13,100 Colbert 1/: 29,600 Conecuh : 0 0 2,350 Covington 1/: 14,550 Crenshaw 1/: 2,300 Cullman : 0 0 1,750 Dale : 0 0 3,700 Dallas 1/: 13,550 Dekalb : 0 0 700 Elmore : 21,450 22,100 15,200 Escambia 1/: 28,050 Etowah : 0 0 1,700 Fayette 1/: 2,800 Geneva 1/: 10,100 Greene 1/: 900 Hale : 0 0 500 Henry 1/: 14,350 Houston 1/: 14,300 Jackson : 0 0 800 Lamar : 0 0 650 Lauderdale 1/: 28,100 Lawrence : 65,600 68,200 51,050 Lee : 0 0 2,850 Limestone : 88,850 91,900 78,950 Lowndes 1/: 5,350 Macon 1/: 6,150 Madison : 32,250 32,250 44,200 Marengo 1/: 4,900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Marshall 1/: 0 0 Mobile 1/: 4,850 Monroe 1/: 34,250 Montgomery : 0 0 1,400 Morgan : 0 0 550 Perry : 0 0 2,950 Pickens : 0 0 450 Pike : 0 0 8,850 Russell 1/: 6,150 Shelby : 0 0 6,400 Talladega : 0 0 4,400 Tallapoosa 1/: 2,750 Tuscaloosa 1/: 5,800 Washington : 0 0 1,000 Wilcox : 0 0 2,500 Winston 1/: 0 0 Other 2/: 2,150 : Alabama : 538,500 555,000 535,950 : : Cochise 1/: 7,200 Graham 1/: 47,550 Greenlee : 0 0 1,700 La Paz 1/: 37,800 Maricopa : 239,750 244,900 201,600 Mohave 1/: 10,200 Pima 1/: 25,200 Pinal : 207,000 213,450 241,200 Yavapai : 0 0 1,250 Yuma : 44,400 46,200 43,050 : Arizona : 600,750 618,150 616,800 : : Arkansas : 0 0 800 Ashley : 78,600 78,950 79,050 Chicot 1/: 52,250 Clay : 19,150 19,400 40,400 Craighead : 134,150 135,750 127,300 Crittenden : 67,000 67,800 43,850 Cross 1/: 1,650 Desha : 155,450 157,200 132,250 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Drew 1/: 29,750 Greene : 20,700 20,850 19,500 Jackson : 0 0 1,150 Jefferson : 63,100 64,600 62,700 Lafayette 1/: 3,100 Lee 1/: 34,750 Lincoln 1/: 48,350 Lonoke : 41,450 42,200 35,950 Miller 1/: 1,600 Mississippi : 239,600 244,300 247,500 Monroe 1/: 16,100 Phillips : 113,950 115,500 92,500 Poinsett : 94,100 95,200 88,200 Prairie 1/: 1,750 Pulaski : 0 0 1,400 Saint Franci : 30,400 31,300 21,250 Woodruff 1/: 6,400 Yell 1/: 0 0 : Arkansas : 1,172,600 1,191,650 1,189,550 : : Butte 1/: 0 0 Colusa 1/: 11,550 Fresno : 566,700 586,400 550,250 Glenn 1/: 0 0 Imperial 1/: 18,650 Kern : 262,650 271,550 296,500 Kings : 276,150 284,850 265,950 Madera 1/: 50,350 Merced : 99,050 101,750 132,000 Riverside 1/: 19,550 San Bernardi : 0 0 1,300 Sutter 1/: 1,300 Tulare : 127,150 131,000 97,550 Yolo : 0 0 4,850 : California : 1,466,400 1,515,200 1,450,400 : : Alachua : 0 0 850 Calhoun : 0 0 5,600 Columbia 1/: 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Escambia 1/: 11,100 Gadsen : 0 0 550 Hamilton : 0 0 2,200 Holmes : 0 0 750 Jackson 1/: 21,900 Jefferson : 0 0 1,400 Madison : 0 0 1,250 Okaloosa : 0 0 4,250 Santa Rosa 1/: 26,150 Suwannee : 0 0 1,000 Walton 1/: 0 0 Washington : 0 0 450 : Florida 1/: 78,100 : : Appling 1/: 37,050 Atkinson : 0 0 17,050 Bacon : 0 0 9,350 Baker : 0 0 26,200 Bartow 1/: 3,300 Ben Hill : 0 0 10,650 Berrien 1/: 22,950 Bibb : 0 0 300 Bleckley 1/: 18,100 Blinch 1/: 0 0 Brooks 1/: 37,350 Bryan : 0 0 1,450 Bulloch 1/: 40,350 Burke : 63,150 65,750 28,900 Calhoun 1/: 21,900 Candler 1/: 9,600 Clay : 0 0 5,850 Coffee 1/: 52,300 Colquitt : 191,250 197,350 84,550 Cook 1/: 25,950 Crawford 1/: 0 0 Crisp 1/: 47,300 Decatur 1/: 48,450 Dodge 1/: 21,100 Dooly : 132,600 136,450 90,950 Dougherty : 0 0 11,650 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Early 1/: 30,100 Echols : 0 0 300 Effingham : 0 0 3,450 Elbert : 0 0 2,500 Emanuel : 0 0 16,300 Evans : 0 0 2,750 Floyd : 0 0 3,600 Glascock : 0 0 1,000 Grady : 0 0 34,350 Hart : 0 0 950 Henry : 0 0 700 Houston : 0 0 11,900 Irwin 1/: 33,800 Jeff Davis 1/: 28,550 Jefferson 1/: 12,800 Jenkins : 0 0 10,950 Johnson 1/: 5,550 Lamar : 0 0 1,700 Lanier : 0 0 7,700 Laurens 1/: 13,200 Lee 1/: 20,450 Long 1/: 0 0 Lowndes 1/: 8,950 Macon : 0 0 13,750 Madison 1/: 0 0 Marion : 0 0 850 McDuffie : 0 0 550 Miller 1/: 28,650 Mitchell 1/: 61,500 Montgomery : 0 0 3,200 Morgan 1/: 1,700 Peach : 0 0 4,400 Pierce : 0 0 18,900 Pike : 0 0 350 Polk : 0 0 3,300 Pulaski 1/: 30,050 Quitman : 0 0 2,000 Randolph 1/: 11,200 Richmond : 0 0 1,000 Schley : 0 0 1,000 Screven 1/: 22,800 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Seminole 1/: 22,200 Stewart : 0 0 3,500 Sumter 1/: 28,550 Tattnall : 0 0 6,550 Taylor 1/: 3,350 Telfair : 0 0 7,950 Terrell 1/: 17,400 Thomas 1/: 32,650 Tift 1/: 38,500 Toombs : 0 0 9,700 Treutlen : 0 0 4,300 Turner 1/: 42,200 Twiggs : 0 0 5,300 Walton : 0 0 350 Ware : 0 0 4,100 Warren 1/: 0 0 Washington : 0 0 7,250 Wayne : 0 0 16,300 Webster : 0 0 4,100 Wheeler : 0 0 3,050 Wilcox 1/: 25,700 Wilkes 1/: 0 0 Wilkinson : 0 0 500 Worth 1/: 81,050 : Georgia : 1,516,450 1,564,150 1,494,350 : : Kansas 1/: 13,950 : : Avoyelles 1/: 6,750 Caddo : 7,250 7,500 6,600 Caldwell : 0 0 7,350 Catahoula : 42,650 43,000 56,600 Concordia : 55,100 56,350 47,400 East Baton r 1/: 0 0 East Carroll : 68,750 69,200 43,450 East Felicia : 0 0 600 Evangeline : 0 0 1,000 Franklin : 87,900 90,200 68,000 Grant : 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Lasalle : 0 0 300 Madison 1/: 67,150 Morehouse : 59,700 61,050 57,100 Natchitoches : 0 0 500 Ouachita 1/: 14,700 Pointe Coupe 1/: 4,500 Rapides : 15,600 15,800 11,200 Red River 1/: 1,000 Richland : 89,800 90,450 45,850 Saint Landry : 0 0 3,000 Tensas : 125,250 129,050 145,500 Union 1/: 0 0 Webster 1/: 0 0 West Carroll : 50,150 51,950 38,200 West Felicia 1/: 0 0 : Louisiana : 652,750 665,650 627,800 : : Adams : 0 0 5,550 Alcorn : 0 0 1,650 Attala : 0 0 6,650 Benton 1/: 600 Bolivar : 93,850 96,300 89,950 Calhoun : 33,050 33,350 26,200 Carroll 1/: 20,800 Chickasaw 1/: 8,200 Choctaw : 0 0 750 Claiborne : 0 0 3,350 Clay : 0 0 4,500 Coahoma : 125,600 127,350 115,800 Copiah : 0 0 4,450 Covington : 0 0 500 Desoto 1/: 14,000 Forrest : 0 0 2,100 George : 0 0 1,450 Greene : 0 0 550 Grenada 1/: 10,450 Hinds 1/: 17,800 Holmes : 82,400 83,850 76,150 Humphreys : 95,250 97,950 100,450 Issaquena 1/: 22,450 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Itawamba : 0 0 1,250 Jackson 1/: 0 0 Jefferson 1/: 5,750 Jones 1/: 0 0 Lafayette 1/: 4,450 Lamar : 0 0 1,000 Leake : 0 0 2,400 Lee 1/: 8,900 Leflore : 130,300 134,750 118,400 Lowndes : 0 0 7,500 Madison 1/: 31,700 Marshall : 0 0 300 Monroe 1/: 13,650 Montgomery 1/: 12,200 Newton : 0 0 650 Noxubee : 0 0 9,800 Oktibbeha : 0 0 1,150 Panola : 29,100 30,200 24,600 Pontotoc 1/: 6,600 Prentiss : 0 0 2,650 Quitman : 39,400 40,100 48,550 Rankin 1/: 7,900 Scott : 0 0 3,750 Sharkey 1/: 61,950 Smith 1/: 0 0 Sunflower : 89,100 91,150 71,750 Tallahatchie : 78,450 80,800 82,700 Tate 1/: 8,100 Tippah 1/: 600 Tishomingo : 0 0 1,500 Tunica : 46,450 47,300 57,550 Union : 0 0 2,100 Warren 1/: 13,500 Washington : 115,800 119,100 127,950 Webster 1/: 17,300 Wilkinson : 0 0 1,050 Yalobusha 1/: 15,050 Yazoo : 119,350 122,200 100,750 : Mississippi : 1,400,900 1,435,050 1,409,400 : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Butler 1/: 0 0 Dunklin : 138,650 141,000 142,500 Mississippi 1/: 0 0 New Madrid : 96,000 97,400 93,950 Pemiscot : 72,750 73,700 63,950 Scott 1/: 8,400 Stoddard 1/: 29,900 Other 2/: 5,300 : Missouri : 337,750 343,150 344,250 : : Chaves 1/: 7,400 Curry : 0 0 950 Dona Ana : 31,100 31,800 32,500 Eddy 1/: 20,350 Hidalgo 1/: Lea : 0 0 3,750 Luna 1/: 11,900 Quay 1/: 4,050 Roosevelt : 0 0 7,450 Sierra 1/: 0 0 Other 2/: 300 : New Mexico : 69,600 70,500 89,150 : : Anson 1/: 3,250 Beaufort 1/: 14,600 Bertie 1/: 54,350 Bladen 1/: 10,150 Brunswick : 0 0 300 Cabarrus : 0 0 3,050 Camden : 0 0 1,450 Carteret : 0 0 3,700 Chowan : 0 0 30,400 Cleveland 1/: 3,200 Columbus : 0 0 3,500 Craven 1/: 20,200 Cumberland : 0 0 6,100 Currituck : 0 0 650 Davidson : 0 0 300 Duplin 1/: 9,500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Edgecombe 1/: 66,100 Franklin : 0 0 350 Gates 1/: 25,800 Greene 1/: 29,200 Halifax : 83,600 86,050 94,600 Harnett 1/: 9,900 Hertford 1/: 33,850 Hoke 1/: 23,550 Hyde : 0 0 17,900 Iredell : 0 0 950 Johnston : 0 0 8,400 Jones 1/: 39,650 Lee : 0 0 3,500 Lenoir 1/: 34,150 Martin 1/: 43,800 Montgomery : 0 0 6,150 Nash 1/: 18,800 Northampton : 89,350 92,950 76,850 Onslow : 0 0 2,900 Pamlico : 0 0 3,200 Pasquotank : 0 0 4,750 Perquimans 1/: 26,150 Pitt 1/: 42,700 Richmond 1/: 0 0 Robeson : 43,750 46,450 31,050 Rowan : 0 0 800 Rutherford 1/: Sampson : 58,500 59,700 63,350 Scotland 1/: 19,250 Stanly 1/: 8,900 Tyrrell : 0 0 3,850 Union : 0 0 12,250 Wake : 0 0 300 Warren : 0 0 1,050 Washington : 0 0 10,550 Wayne 1/: 31,100 Wilson 1/: 32,050 Other 2/: 900 : North Carolina : 1,006,700 1,039,000 993,800 : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Beckham 1/: 2,600 Bryan 1/: 0 Caddo 1/: 550 Canadian 1/: 0 0 Comanche 1/: 0 0 Cotton : 0 0 450 Custer 1/: 800 Grady 1/: 500 Grant : 0 0 2,100 Greer 1/: 3,050 Harmon : 19,450 20,150 23,250 Jackson : 86,700 88,550 81,400 Kay : 0 0 4,000 Kiowa : 2,750 2,750 2,650 Mcclain 1/: Roger Mills : 0 0 1,350 Tillman 1/: 7,800 Wagoner : 0 0 400 Washita : 6,300 6,800 4,400 Other 2/: 550 : Oklahoma : 138,450 142,300 136,150 : : Abbeville 1/: 0 0 Aiken 1/: 7,150 Allendale 1/: 8,050 Anderson : 0 0 400 Bamberg : 0 0 15,450 Barnwell 1/: 4,150 Berkeley : 0 0 350 Calhoun : 56,900 58,000 39,950 Chester : 0 0 1,400 Chesterfield : 0 0 400 Clarendon 1/: 9,350 Colleton : 0 0 500 Darlington : 29,200 29,450 37,500 Dillon 1/: 18,950 Dorchester : 0 0 5,100 Edgefield : 0 0 1,100 Fairfield 1/: 0 0 Florence : 0 0 13,550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Georgetown : 0 0 750 Hampton 1/: 18,700 Horry : 0 0 550 Kershaw : 0 0 550 Lancaster 1/: 0 0 Laurens 1/: 0 0 Lee 1/: 26,750 Lexington : 0 0 750 Marion : 0 0 3,650 Marlboro : 34,050 35,300 34,400 Newberry : 0 0 750 Orangeburg : 57,850 58,700 47,150 Saluda 1/: 1,600 Sumter : 26,450 28,000 11,700 Williamsburg 1/: 27,100 York 1/: 3,550 : South Carolina : 334,200 342,200 341,600 : : Carroll 1/: 12,350 Chester : 0 0 1,750 Coffee 1/: 0 0 Crockett : 98,200 99,550 83,150 Dyer 1/: 26,800 Fayette : 47,250 48,800 45,350 Franklin : 0 0 6,700 Gibson : 44,900 45,650 40,650 Giles : 0 0 2,050 Hardeman 1/: 12,350 Hardin : 0 0 1,400 Haywood : 149,600 153,600 129,450 Henderson : 0 0 1,350 Henry : 0 0 300 Lake 1/: 9,300 Lauderdale : 47,800 48,450 33,500 Lawrence 1/: 0 0 Lincoln 1/: 5,200 Madison 1/: 39,800 Mcnairy : 0 0 1,250 Obion : 0 0 3,900 Rutherford : 0 0 1,200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Shelby : 0 0 14,800 Tipton : 67,250 70,050 58,700 Weakley : 0 0 600 : Tennessee : 530,600 543,400 532,450 : : Anderson : 0 0 650 Andrews : 0 0 10,150 Archer 1/: 0 0 Austin : 0 0 1,050 Bailey : 90,400 93,500 59,250 Bastrop 1/: 0 0 Baylor 1/: 1,000 Bee : 0 0 1,650 Bell : 0 0 1,200 Borden 1/: 4,800 Brazoria : 5,550 5,900 1,000 Brazos 1/: 5,350 Briscoe : 30,600 31,950 28,400 Brown 1/: 0 0 Burleson 1/: 15,700 Caldwell 1/: 1,000 Calhoun 1/: 10,700 Callahan 1/: 0 0 Cameron : 62,800 64,200 57,850 Castro : 81,000 82,450 108,450 Childress 1/: 16,350 Clay 1/: 550 Cochran 1/: 74,100 Coke 1/: 0 0 Coleman 1/: 1,200 Collin 1/: 1,200 Collingswort 1/: 15,400 Colorado : 0 0 1,200 Concho 1/: 8,000 Coryell 1/: 0 0 Cottle 1/: 2,450 Crosby : 145,500 150,950 152,600 Culberson 1/: 350 Dawson : 55,600 57,100 71,650 De Witt 1/: 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: All Cotton Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters), Equivalent 480-Pound Bales Ginned, and Running Bales Produced by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Deaf Smith 1/: 18,850 Delta : 0 0 1,550 Denton : 0 0 400 Dickens 1/: 5,650 Donley 1/: 6,650 El Paso : 97,100 99,750 71,300 Ellis : 6,250 6,500 6,300 Falls 1/: 2,600 Fisher 1/: 3,700 Floyd : 150,100 157,350 165,100 Foard 1/: 0 0 Fort Bend : 17,350 17,850 16,750 Frio : 0 0 1,250 Gaines : 228,250 236,500 211,900 Garza 1/: 21,100 Glasscock 1/: 33,000 Grayson 1/: 0 0 Grimes 1/: 0 0 Guadalupe 1/: 0 0 Hale : 360,450 373,500 332,950 Hall : 24,350 25,400 24,650 Hardeman 1/: 2,900 Haskell : 12,150 12,650 16,000 Hays 1/: 0 0 Henderson 1/: 0 0 Hidalgo : 69,900 71,950 65,150 Hill : 14,950 15,400 8,700 Hockley : 209,200 216,350 147,800 Houston 1/: 300 Howard 1/: 7,350 Hudspeth : 0 0 22,250 Hunt 1/: 9,450 Jackson 1/: 16,250 Jim Wells : 0 0 4,850 Johnson 1/: 0 0 Jones : 9,350 9,650 6,650 Karnes 1/: 0 0 Kent 1/: 750 King 1/: 0 0 Kinney : 0 0 900 Kleberg 1/: 3,850 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Knox 1/: 19,200 Lamar 1/: Lamb : 257,100 267,650 224,700 Limestone : 0 0 2,400 Live Oak : 0 0 750 Lubbock : 216,500 223,600 183,150 Lynn : 151,300 155,850 117,700 Madison 1/: 0 0 Martin : 22,200 23,150 15,150 Mason 1/: 0 0 Matagorda 1/: 20,600 Mcculloch 1/: 1,850 Mclennan 1/: 3,950 Medina 1/: 5,550 Midland 1/: 11,500 Milam 1/: 5,350 Mitchell 1/: 3,400 Motley 1/: 3,800 Navarro 1/: 7,050 Nolan 1/: 3,300 Nueces : 69,700 71,800 75,100 Parmer : 103,600 107,850 128,500 Pecos 1/: 14,800 Randall : 0 0 1,250 Reagan : 0 0 9,700 Red River : 0 0 1,350 Reeves 1/: 15,300 Refugio 1/: 16,350 Roberts : 0 0 1,850 Robertson : 15,000 15,450 8,050 Runnels : 38,800 40,450 23,300 San Patricio : 121,600 124,350 65,900 Schleicher : 0 0 1,100 Scurry 1/: 4,750 Shackelford 1/: 0 0 Starr 1/: Stephens 1/: 0 0 Stonewall : 0 0 500 Swisher : 70,450 72,700 85,050 Taylor 1/: 2,450 Terry : 132,550 136,650 143,900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Throckmorton 1/: 450 Tom Green : 28,150 29,100 35,850 Travis : 0 0 500 Upton 1/: 6,050 Uvalde : 0 0 8,450 Victoria : 0 0 4,150 Walker 1/: 550 Washington 1/: 0 0 Wharton : 62,400 63,150 32,900 Wheeler : 0 0 2,550 Wichita 1/: 850 Wilbarger : 3,650 3,650 2,600 Willacy : 64,100 63,650 36,350 Williamson : 19,600 19,900 18,950 Wilson : 0 0 650 Yoakum : 98,850 99,750 59,150 Young 1/: 600 Zavala 1/: 4,500 Other 2/: 200,550 : Texas : 3,558,550 3,672,700 3,536,850 : : Accomack 1/: 1,500 Amelia 1/: 0 0 Brunswick 1/: 0 0 Charles City : 0 0 1,500 Dinwiddie : 0 0 2,500 Greensville 1/: 11,300 Henrico 1/: 0 0 Isle of Wigh 1/: 13,700 King William 1/: 0 0 King and Que 1/: 0 0 New Kent 1/: 0 0 Northampton : 0 0 4,300 Prince Georg 1/: 0 0 Southampton : 0 0 65,250 Suffolk City 1/: 25,000 Surry : 0 0 6,900 Sussex 1/: 8,250 : Virginia : 133,850 135,400 143,400 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : US TOTAL : 13,533,950 13,912,250 13,533,950 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Autauga : 2 508.7 250 Baldwin : 1 490.3 254 Barbour : 0 0.0 260 Blount : 1 509.5 398 Bullock : 0 0.0 468 Butler : 0 0.0 435 Chambers : 0 0.0 493 Cherokee : 4 490.0 142 Chilton : 1 498.0 415 Choctaw : 0 0.0 487 Clarke : 0 0.0 533 Coffee : 1 491.4 215 Colbert : 2 487.8 126 Conecuh : 0 0.0 387 Covington : 1 503.7 204 Crenshaw : 1 486.8 388 Cullman : 0 0.0 399 Dale : 0 0.0 342 Dallas : 2 479.9 211 Dekalb : 0 0.0 484 Elmore : 3 495.1 197 Escambia : 1 500.7 134 Etowah : 0 0.0 402 Fayette : 1 501.8 371 Geneva : 1 489.4 239 Greene : 1 495.0 466 Hale : 0 0.0 509 Henry : 2 488.2 205 Houston : 1 494.8 206 Jackson : 0 0.0 473 Lamar : 0 0.0 486 Lauderdale : 2 499.6 133 Lawrence : 4 499.2 72 Lee : 0 0.0 370 Limestone : 7 496.5 43 Lowndes : 1 504.8 305 Macon : 1 512.8 292 Madison : 3 480.3 83 Marengo : 1 485.6 311 Marshall : 0 0.0 585 Mobile : 1 504.0 312 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Monroe : 1 496.1 108 Montgomery : 0 0.0 419 Morgan : 0 0.0 499 Perry : 0 0.0 367 Pickens : 0 0.0 517 Pike : 0 0.0 255 Russell : 2 485.9 293 Shelby : 0 0.0 289 Talladega : 0 0.0 323 Tallapoosa : 1 495.5 372 Tuscaloosa : 1 498.7 298 Washington : 0 0.0 449 Wilcox : 0 0.0 380 Winston : 0 0.0 584 : Alabama : 51 494.7 : : Cochise : 1 483.5 277 Graham : 5 501.5 77 Greenlee : 0 0.0 403 La Paz : 2 496.4 98 Maricopa : 15 490.3 9 Mohave : 1 498.6 236 Pima : 2 494.8 146 Pinal : 19 494.9 6 Yavapai : 0 0.0 429 Yuma : 4 499.2 87 : Arizona : 49 493.9 : : Arkansas : 0 0.0 474 Ashley : 6 482.0 42 Chicot : 2 487.3 71 Clay : 3 486.2 91 Craighead : 8 485.8 22 Crittenden : 4 485.7 84 Cross : 1 522.0 406 Desha : 6 485.4 17 Drew : 1 482.3 125 Greene : 3 483.6 169 Jackson : 0 0.0 441 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Jefferson : 9 491.5 59 Lafayette : 2 501.4 362 Lee : 1 508.5 105 Lincoln : 1 494.6 76 Lonoke : 6 488.7 103 Miller : 1 500.0 409 Mississippi : 15 489.4 5 Monroe : 3 488.4 191 Phillips : 6 486.6 32 Poinsett : 7 485.6 35 Prairie : 1 475.0 400 Pulaski : 0 0.0 420 Saint Franci : 4 494.5 160 Woodruff : 1 505.4 290 Yell : 0 0.0 567 : Arkansas : 91 487.8 : : Butte : 0 0.0 586 Colusa : 1 497.9 225 Fresno : 32 496.7 1 Glenn : 0 0.0 500 Imperial : 1 498.9 178 Kern : 19 496.3 3 Kings : 14 495.1 4 Madera : 4 499.7 73 Merced : 5 493.0 18 Riverside : 2 494.0 168 San Bernardi : 0 0.0 428 Sutter : 1 500.4 427 Tulare : 7 494.5 29 Yolo : 0 0.0 313 : California : 86 496.0 : : Alachua : 0 0.0 469 Calhoun : 0 0.0 301 Columbia : 0 0.0 544 Escambia : 1 490.6 230 Gadsen : 0 0.0 501 Hamilton : 0 0.0 389 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Holmes : 0 0.0 477 Jackson : 1 501.0 158 Jefferson : 0 0.0 421 Madison : 0 0.0 430 Okaloosa : 0 0.0 328 Santa Rosa : 2 503.5 140 Suwannee : 0 0.0 450 Walton : 0 0.0 518 Washington : 0 0.0 519 : Florida : 4 501.0 : : Appling : 2 495.8 101 Atkinson : 0 0.0 184 Bacon : 0 0.0 247 Baker : 0 0.0 138 Bartow : 1 482.0 355 Ben Hill : 0 0.0 233 Berrien : 2 487.2 153 Bibb : 0 0.0 534 Bleckley : 1 493.0 179 Blinch : 0 0.0 570 Brooks : 2 505.0 100 Bryan : 0 0.0 416 Bulloch : 3 489.8 92 Burke : 5 499.9 128 Calhoun : 2 494.0 159 Candler : 2 499.9 244 Clay : 0 0.0 297 Coffee : 2 494.3 70 Colquitt : 7 495.3 37 Cook : 1 496.0 143 Crawford : 0 0.0 587 Crisp : 2 481.6 79 Decatur : 2 500.0 75 Dodge : 1 489.0 161 Dooly : 8 494.0 33 Dougherty : 0 0.0 224 Early : 1 492.7 122 Echols : 0 0.0 535 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Effingham : 0 0.0 351 Elbert : 0 0.0 381 Emanuel : 0 0.0 188 Evans : 0 0.0 373 Floyd : 0 0.0 346 Glascock : 0 0.0 452 Grady : 0 0.0 107 Hart : 0 0.0 463 Henry : 0 0.0 485 Houston : 0 0.0 221 Irwin : 2 495.0 111 Jeff Davis : 1 501.0 131 Jefferson : 2 508.8 216 Jenkins : 0 0.0 231 Johnson : 1 499.0 302 Lamar : 0 0.0 404 Lanier : 0 0.0 270 Laurens : 2 500.5 214 Lee : 1 487.5 165 Long : 0 0.0 588 Lowndes : 1 496.8 251 Macon : 0 0.0 208 Madison : 0 0.0 568 Marion : 0 0.0 470 McDuffie : 0 0.0 502 Miller : 1 495.1 129 Mitchell : 1 493.0 61 Montgomery : 0 0.0 359 Morgan : 1 500.0 405 Peach : 0 0.0 324 Pierce : 0 0.0 174 Pike : 0 0.0 528 Polk : 0 0.0 356 Pulaski : 3 490.9 123 Quitman : 0 0.0 394 Randolph : 1 498.0 228 Richmond : 0 0.0 453 Schley : 0 0.0 451 Screven : 3 518.6 154 Seminole : 1 507.0 157 Stewart : 0 0.0 348 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Sumter : 2 479.6 130 Tattnall : 0 0.0 288 Taylor : 1 490.0 353 Telfair : 0 0.0 267 Terrell : 1 472.0 182 Thomas : 2 490.0 115 Tift : 2 485.8 96 Toombs : 0 0.0 242 Treutlen : 0 0.0 326 Turner : 2 502.0 89 Twiggs : 0 0.0 308 Walton : 0 0.0 527 Ware : 0 0.0 332 Warren : 0 0.0 551 Washington : 0 0.0 276 Wayne : 0 0.0 189 Webster : 0 0.0 331 Wheeler : 0 0.0 363 Wilcox : 1 490.0 145 Wilkes : 0 0.0 569 Wilkinson : 0 0.0 510 Worth : 1 500.0 41 : Georgia : 77 495.1 : : Kansas 1/ : 1 477.6 : : Avoyelles : 1 489.9 281 Caddo : 5 495.0 286 Caldwell : 0 0.0 274 Catahoula : 4 484.0 68 Concordia : 3 491.1 78 East Baton r : 0 0.0 552 East Carroll : 5 483.2 86 East Felicia : 0 0.0 494 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Evangeline : 0 0.0 457 Franklin : 9 492.6 51 Grant : 0 0.0 488 Lasalle : 0 0.0 536 Madison : 2 482.2 52 Morehouse : 4 490.9 67 Natchitoches : 0 0.0 511 Ouachita : 1 488.7 202 Pointe Coupe : 1 488.3 318 Rapides : 4 485.9 229 Red River : 1 491.1 456 Richland : 10 483.4 81 Saint Landry : 0 0.0 366 Tensas : 7 494.5 14 Union : 0 0.0 559 Webster : 0 0.0 571 West Carroll : 4 497.2 97 West Felicia : 0 0.0 589 : Louisiana : 61 489.5 : : Adams : 0 0.0 303 Alcorn : 0 0.0 407 Attala : 0 0.0 283 Benton : 1 450.0 495 Bolivar : 8 492.6 34 Calhoun : 3 484.6 139 Carroll : 2 493.8 163 Chickasaw : 1 489.0 262 Choctaw : 0 0.0 478 Claiborne : 0 0.0 354 Clay : 0 0.0 319 Coahoma : 8 486.7 25 Copiah : 0 0.0 322 Covington : 0 0.0 512 Desoto : 2 491.6 207 Forrest : 0 0.0 391 George : 0 0.0 417 Greene : 0 0.0 503 Grenada : 1 492.6 235 Hinds : 2 495.7 181 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Holmes : 4 488.5 45 Humphreys : 4 493.6 28 Issaquena : 1 490.0 155 Itawamba : 0 0.0 431 Jackson : 0 0.0 590 Jefferson : 1 490.0 299 Jones : 0 0.0 591 Lafayette : 1 496.5 321 Lamar : 0 0.0 458 Leake : 0 0.0 385 Lee : 1 500.0 252 Leflore : 10 496.4 23 Lowndes : 0 0.0 271 Madison : 2 488.4 118 Marshall : 0 0.0 537 Monroe : 2 492.6 210 Montgomery : 1 498.9 220 Newton : 0 0.0 489 Noxubee : 0 0.0 241 Oktibbeha : 0 0.0 442 Panola : 3 498.5 149 Pontotoc : 2 487.0 287 Prentiss : 0 0.0 374 Quitman : 5 488.5 74 Rankin : 2 492.1 268 Scott : 0 0.0 340 Sharkey : 5 490.0 60 Smith : 0 0.0 560 Sunflower : 8 491.1 48 Tallahatchie : 7 494.4 39 Tate : 1 486.0 263 Tippah : 1 509.2 496 Tishomingo : 0 0.0 412 Tunica : 5 488.6 66 Union : 0 0.0 390 Warren : 1 491.6 213 Washington : 12 493.6 21 Webster : 1 479.1 183 Wilkinson : 0 0.0 446 Yalobusha : 1 496.1 199 Yazoo : 7 491.5 27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : : Mississippi : 116 491.7 : : Butler : 0 0.0 545 Dunklin : 12 488.1 16 Mississippi : 0 0.0 572 New Madrid : 9 487.0 31 Pemiscot : 9 486.2 57 Scott : 3 493.4 258 Stoddard : 2 490.9 124 : Missouri : 35 487.7 : : Chaves : 2 491.3 273 Curry : 0 0.0 464 Dona Ana : 8 490.6 116 Eddy : 3 480.9 166 Hidalgo : 1 477.0 546 Lea : 0 0.0 341 Luna : 1 479.0 222 Quay : 1 460.0 333 Roosevelt : 0 0.0 272 Sierra : 0 0.0 553 : New Mexico : 16 486.2 : : Anson : 1 489.0 358 Beaufort : 1 488.8 203 Bertie : 2 486.8 69 Bladen : 1 496.4 237 Brunswick : 0 0.0 540 Cabarrus : 0 0.0 364 Camden : 0 0.0 418 Carteret : 0 0.0 343 Chowan : 0 0.0 121 Cleveland : 4 490.6 360 Columbus : 0 0.0 350 Craven : 1 496.5 167 Cumberland : 0 0.0 295 Currituck : 0 0.0 490 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Davidson : 0 0.0 538 Duplin : 3 492.8 245 Edgecombe : 2 499.1 53 Franklin : 0 0.0 529 Gates : 1 480.0 144 Greene : 1 486.0 127 Halifax : 5 494.2 30 Harnett : 1 494.5 240 Hertford : 1 491.3 110 Hoke : 1 505.1 150 Hyde : 0 0.0 180 Iredell : 0 0.0 465 Johnston : 0 0.0 259 Jones : 1 504.0 95 Lee : 0 0.0 349 Lenoir : 2 489.8 109 Martin : 1 495.0 85 Montgomery : 0 0.0 294 Nash : 1 514.8 176 Northampton : 6 499.4 44 Onslow : 0 0.0 368 Pamlico : 0 0.0 361 Pasquotank : 0 0.0 316 Perquimans : 1 501.8 141 Pitt : 2 504.3 88 Richmond : 0 0.0 548 Robeson : 3 509.7 120 Rowan : 0 0.0 475 Rutherford : 1 438.0 547 Sampson : 5 489.8 58 Scotland : 2 501.1 170 Stanly : 1 501.9 253 Tyrrell : 0 0.0 337 Union : 0 0.0 219 Wake : 0 0.0 539 Warren : 0 0.0 447 Washington : 0 0.0 234 Wayne : 1 0.0 119 Wilson : 1 493.1 117 : North Carolina : 53 495.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Beckham : 3 506.2 376 Bryan : 1 491.0 Caddo : 3 486.1 504 Canadian : 0 0.0 573 Comanche : 0 0.0 592 Cotton : 0 0.0 520 Custer : 2 504.7 476 Grady : 1 500.0 513 Grant : 0 0.0 392 Greer : 2 504.6 365 Harmon : 3 496.9 152 Jackson : 9 490.2 40 Kay : 0 0.0 334 Kiowa : 5 481.6 375 Mcclain : 2 480.0 554 Roger Mills : 0 0.0 424 Tillman : 3 484.1 269 Wagoner : 0 0.0 523 Washita : 4 517.0 325 : Oklahoma : 38 493.4 : : Abbeville : 0 0.0 575 Aiken : 1 480.0 278 Allendale : 1 485.2 264 Anderson : 0 0.0 524 Bamberg : 0 0.0 194 Barnwell : 1 501.3 329 Berkeley : 0 0.0 530 Calhoun : 3 489.3 93 Chester : 0 0.0 422 Chesterfield : 0 0.0 525 Clarendon : 2 484.8 248 Colleton : 0 0.0 514 Darlington : 3 484.2 99 Dillon : 2 491.2 172 Dorchester : 0 0.0 310 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Edgefield : 0 0.0 443 Fairfield : 0 0.0 594 Florence : 0 0.0 212 Georgetown : 0 0.0 479 Hampton : 1 495.7 177 Horry : 0 0.0 506 Kershaw : 0 0.0 505 Lancaster : 0 0.0 574 Laurens : 0 0.0 593 Lee : 3 485.7 137 Lexington : 0 0.0 481 Marion : 0 0.0 345 Marlboro : 4 497.9 106 Newberry : 0 0.0 480 Orangeburg : 4 487.2 80 Saluda : 1 511.9 410 Sumter : 6 507.9 223 Williamsburg : 1 501.2 135 York : 1 485.3 347 : South Carolina : 34 491.5 : : Carroll : 1 490.1 217 Chester : 0 0.0 401 Coffee : 0 0.0 542 Crockett : 8 486.5 38 Dyer : 1 480.0 136 Fayette : 3 495.6 82 Franklin : 0 0.0 282 Gibson : 5 488.2 90 Giles : 0 0.0 393 Hardeman : 2 498.3 218 Hardin : 0 0.0 423 Haywood : 9 492.8 19 Henderson : 0 0.0 425 Henry : 0 0.0 541 Lake : 1 495.0 249 Lauderdale : 4 486.5 112 Lawrence : 0 0.0 549 Lincoln : 1 490.0 309 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Madison : 2 487.5 94 Mcnairy : 0 0.0 432 Obion : 0 0.0 336 Rutherford : 0 0.0 436 Shelby : 0 0.0 200 Tipton : 4 500.0 64 Weakley : 0 0.0 497 : Tennessee : 41 491.6 : : Anderson : 0 0.0 491 Andrews : 0 0.0 238 Archer : 0 0.0 550 Austin : 0 0.0 448 Bailey : 8 496.5 62 Bastrop : 0 0.0 580 Baylor : 1 460.0 459 Bee : 0 0.0 408 Bell : 0 0.0 438 Borden : 1 480.0 315 Brazoria : 3 509.7 461 Brazos : 2 483.7 307 Briscoe : 3 501.4 132 Brown : 0 0.0 561 Burleson : 1 490.8 193 Caldwell : 1 492.1 460 Calhoun : 1 497.9 232 Callahan : 0 0.0 576 Cameron : 8 490.6 65 Castro : 6 488.7 26 Childress : 1 496.0 186 Clay : 1 475.5 507 Cochran : 3 489.1 47 Coke : 0 0.0 565 Coleman : 1 495.0 437 Collin : 2 474.8 439 Collingswort : 2 507.0 195 Colorado : 0 0.0 440 Concho : 1 480.0 266 Coryell : 0 0.0 563 Cottle : 1 485.9 383 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Crosby : 7 498.0 12 Culberson : 1 485.0 531 Dawson : 11 493.0 49 De Witt : 0 0.0 581 Deaf Smith : 1 490.0 175 Delta : 0 0.0 411 Denton : 0 0.0 526 Dickens : 2 485.3 300 Donley : 1 497.0 284 El Paso : 6 493.2 50 Ellis : 3 497.7 291 Falls : 2 492.3 378 Fisher : 2 501.3 344 Floyd : 10 503.2 11 Foard : 0 0.0 555 Fort Bend : 16 493.6 185 Frio : 0 0.0 434 Gaines : 12 497.4 8 Garza : 2 495.5 162 Glasscock : 2 503.9 113 Grayson : 0 0.0 578 Grimes : 0 0.0 596 Guadalupe : 0 0.0 582 Hale : 16 497.4 2 Hall : 3 500.3 148 Hardeman : 2 492.2 369 Haskell : 6 499.9 192 Hays : 0 0.0 598 Henderson : 0 0.0 579 Hidalgo : 7 494.1 56 Hill : 3 494.5 256 Hockley : 11 496.4 13 Houston : 1 490.0 543 Howard : 4 491.3 275 Hudspeth : 0 0.0 156 Hunt : 2 479.7 246 Jackson : 1 485.3 190 Jim Wells : 0 0.0 314 Johnson : 0 0.0 564 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Jones : 7 494.3 285 Karnes : 0 0.0 583 Kent : 1 493.3 482 King : 0 0.0 556 Kinney : 0 0.0 467 Kleberg : 1 502.8 338 Knox : 3 503.1 171 Lamar : 2 495.3 595 Lamb : 17 499.7 7 Limestone : 0 0.0 386 Live Oak : 0 0.0 483 Lubbock : 16 495.7 10 Lynn : 11 494.5 24 Madison : 0 0.0 557 Martin : 7 500.9 198 Mason : 0 0.0 597 Matagorda : 1 485.0 164 Mcculloch : 1 500.0 397 Mclennan : 1 489.5 335 Medina : 1 490.0 304 Midland : 1 492.9 226 Milam : 3 474.6 306 Mitchell : 2 490.2 352 Motley : 2 500.0 339 Navarro : 2 496.7 279 Nolan : 2 497.0 357 Nueces : 7 494.5 46 Parmer : 7 499.8 20 Pecos : 1 485.0 201 Randall : 0 0.0 433 Reagan : 0 0.0 243 Red River : 0 0.0 426 Reeves : 2 485.0 196 Refugio : 1 500.0 187 Roberts : 0 0.0 396 Robertson : 4 494.9 265 Runnels : 5 500.7 151 San Patricio : 10 490.8 54 Schleicher : 0 0.0 444 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Scurry : 2 494.7 317 Shackelford : 0 0.0 562 Starr : 1 499.5 0 Stephens : 0 0.0 577 Stonewall : 0 0.0 515 Swisher : 5 495.3 36 Taylor : 1 490.0 384 Terry : 10 494.8 15 Throckmorton : 1 446.2 521 Tom Green : 5 496.2 104 Travis : 0 0.0 516 Upton : 1 500.7 296 Uvalde : 0 0.0 257 Victoria : 0 0.0 330 Walker : 1 501.2 508 Washington : 0 0.0 566 Wharton : 6 485.7 114 Wheeler : 0 0.0 379 Wichita : 1 502.5 472 Wilbarger : 3 482.0 377 Willacy : 4 476.7 102 Williamson : 6 486.9 173 Wilson : 0 0.0 492 Yoakum : 5 484.4 63 Young : 1 485.0 498 Zavala : 2 488.6 320 : Texas : 354 495.4 : : Accomack : 1 483.3 413 Amelia : 0 0.0 599 Brunswick : 0 0.0 532 Charles City : 0 0.0 414 Dinwiddie : 0 0.0 382 Greensville : 1 488.7 227 Henrico : 0 0.0 558 Isle of Wigh : 2 484.2 209 King William : 0 0.0 462 King and Que : 0 0.0 445 New Kent : 0 0.0 600 Northampton : 0 0.0 327 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Prince Georg : 0 0.0 522 Southampton : 0 0.0 55 Suffolk City : 1 486.7 147 Surry : 0 0.0 280 Sussex : 1 486.8 261 : Virginia : 6 485.5 : : US TOTAL : 1,113 493.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Withheld to avoid disclosing individual data. Note: County of origin was not determined for approximately 209,750 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 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All cotton : : : : : : US 1/ : 1,113 : CA : 86 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 187 : 1 - 2,999 : 2 3,000 - 4,999 : 125 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 8 5,000 - 6,999 : 76 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 1 7,000 - 9,999 : 147 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 9 10,000 - 14,999 : 183 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 13 15,000 - 19,999 : 133 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 21 20,000 - 39,999 : 202 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 27 40,000 - and over : 49 : 40,000 - and over : 5 : : : AL : 51 : GA : 77 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 4 : 1 - 2,999 : 3 3,000 - 4,999 : 8 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 5,000 - 6,999 : 7 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 7,000 - 9,999 : 10 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 9 10,000 - 14,999 : 12 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 13 15,000 - 19,999 : 5 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 11 20,000 - 39,999 : 3 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 27 40,000 - and over : 2 : 40,000 - and over : 10 : : : AZ : 49 : LA : 61 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 4 : 1 - 2,999 : 12 3,000 - 4,999 : 3 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 6 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 10 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 7 10,000 - 14,999 : 6 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 7 15,000 - 19,999 : 11 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 8 20,000 - 39,999 : 15 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 11 40,000 - and over : 4 : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : : AR : 91 : MS : 116 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 8 : 1 - 2,999 : 10 3,000 - 4,999 : 16 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 13 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 7 7,000 - 9,999 : 13 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 24 10,000 - 14,999 : 18 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 28 15,000 - 19,999 : 13 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 17 20,000 - 39,999 : 16 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 16 40,000 - and over : 3 : 40,000 - and over : 1 : : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins and Bales Ginned by Size Group, State, and United States, Crop Year 1998 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MO : 35 : SC : 34 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 3 : 1 - 2,999 : 6 3,000 - 4,999 : 5 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 4 5,000 - 6,999 : 6 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 7,000 - 9,999 : 7 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 6 10,000 - 14,999 : 9 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 7 15,000 - 19,999 : 3 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 4 20,000 - 39,999 : 2 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 3 40,000 - and over : 0 : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : : NM : 16 : TN : 41 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 7 : 1 - 2,999 : 2 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 5,000 - 6,999 : 2 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 6 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 10 10,000 - 14,999 : 3 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 10 15,000 - 19,999 : 0 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 4 20,000 - 39,999 : 0 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 8 40,000 - and over : 0 : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : : NC : 53 : TX : 354 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 3 : 1 - 2,999 : 101 3,000 - 4,999 : 2 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 53 5,000 - 6,999 : 0 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 20 7,000 - 9,999 : 4 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 39 10,000 - 14,999 : 11 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 46 15,000 - 19,999 : 5 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 30 20,000 - 39,999 : 26 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 48 40,000 - and over : 2 : 40,000 - and over : 17 : : : OK : 38 : : : : : 1 - 2,999 : 22 : : 3,000 - 4,999 : 4 : : 5,000 - 6,999 : 3 : : 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 : : 10,000 - 14,999 : 0 : : 15,000 - 19,999 : 1 : : 20,000 - 39,999 : 0 : : 40,000 - and over : 5 : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Total number of gins operating. Data excludes 4 gins in Florida, 1 gin in Kansas, and 6 gins in Virginia. Cotton Ginnings 1998: A total of 13.5 million running bales were ginned during the 1998 season, 26 percent less than 1997's ginnings of 18.3 million bales. The 1998 cotton crop experienced delays in planting because of excessive rainfall in the Delta, the Southeast, and in California. Hot, dry conditions persisted during early summer in all States except California. These conditions pushed maturity well ahead of the normal development pace. As a result of this early maturity, harvest progress also exceeded the 5-year averages. The Delta and Southeastern States' crop potential was decreased from the effects of the weather, but brief and timely rains later in the growing season salvaged the yields in most of these States. California experienced unseasonably wet, cool weather during the entire season, resulting in below average yields. Yields in the Texas irrigated fields improved as the season progressed. However, large amounts of non-irrigated acreage had to be abandoned. There were 1,113 active cotton gins during the 1998 season, down from the 1,153 that operated in 1997. There were 251 ginning firms processing more than 20,000 bales in 1998, compared to 370 the previous season, and 49 of these processed at least 40,000 bales in 1998. Cotton, 1998 Final: All cotton production in the United States totaled 13.9 million bales in 1998, 26 percent less than 1997's production. The 1998 output was the smallest crop since 1989. Upland cotton production, at 13.5 million bales, was 26 percent less than the previous year, while American-Pima production totaled 442,300 bales, down 19 percent from 1997. The area planted to all cotton totaled 13.4 million acres, down 4 percent from 1997. Harvested area was 10.7 million acres, down 20 percent from the previous year. This large decrease was mainly due to the large abandonment in Texas. Abandonment totaled 20 percent in 1998, compared to only 4 percent the previous year. Yields for the U.S. averaged 625 pounds per harvested acre. Texas' harvest exceeded the 5-year average during the season, and in late November, harvest was 8 points ahead of the average pace of 87 percent. Texas' irrigated fields showed good progress during the 1998 season, but drought and high temperatures resulted in 2.35 million acres of Upland cotton being abandoned. At the end of August, approximately one-half of the acreage was rated in poor or very poor condition, 17 percent was rated good, and 3 percent was rated excellent. In late August, boll set was complete. Torrential rains in the south during October replenished topsoil moisture, but harvest was interrupted and regrowth became a problem in some fields. Objective yield survey data indicated the third lowest boll weights since 1988. A large amount of American-Pima cotton was seeded in non-traditional producing areas and was subject to substantial abandonment. Acreage planted to all cotton in Texas was 5.76 million, up 4 percent from 1997, but harvested acreage was down 36 percent from last year, at 3.33 million acres. Texas and Oklahoma both had record setting Upland cotton yields due to the large amount of non-irrigated acreage that was abandoned. The abandonment of these acres resulted in the irrigated acreage accounting for a larger proportion of the total, and thus increasing the States' overall yield. The Delta States' (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee) planted and harvested 8 percent less acreage than in 1997. Plantings totaled 3.23 million acres and harvested area totaled 3.17 million acres. Planting was behind the 5-year average due to wet soils until mid-May, when a dry period allowed most States to exceed the average. During the first week of May, producers in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi planted about 30 percent of their acreage. The percent of the Arkansas crop rated in good to excellent condition on July 19, dropped 13 points from late-June to 55 percent. Louisiana's rating dropped 12 points during this same time period to 38 percent, while Mississippi showed a only a 5 point drop to 70 percent in good to excellent condition. Hot and dry weather pushed the crop's development ahead of 5-year averages. Missouri's acreage received heavy rains during early August and then dry conditions began with mild temperatures, which lowered yield potential. During September, Louisiana and Mississippi were affected by two tropical storms and Hurricane Georges. The first storm, Frances, had high amounts of rainfall and also moved into southern Arkansas. Tropical storm Hermine made landfall in Louisiana, but had much less rain than the previous storm. In early November, harvest was 8 points behind the 5-year average pace in Missouri, at 70 percent, but the other States were ahead of the average pace. At this same time, Louisiana had 97 percent of the crop harvested, 5 points ahead of the 5-year average. Mississippi and Arkansas producers were 14 points above average with 98 percent and 91 percent of the acreage harvested, respectively, in early November. Tennessee's progress was 17 points ahead of the 5-year average at 92 percent, and excellent harvest conditions allowed growers to proceed with second pickings. Cotton objective yield data indicated Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi had the lowest boll weights compared to the past 10 years. Arizona planted 23 percent fewer acres of all cotton than during 1997. Harvested acreage decreased by 24 percent. California producers decreased planted and harvested acreage of all cotton by 20 percent and 24 percent, respectively. Eighty-three percent of Arizona's crop was harvested in late November, 7 points behind the normal pace. California's seeding pace was well behind average most of the season as wet, cool weather prevailed which resulted in cotton development remaining behind average. Only one percent of the California crop was harvested on October 4, 8 points behind average, and one month later producers were 47 points behind the average pace, with only 15 percent harvested. Boll opening was three-fourths complete compared to the 5- year average of 99 percent, on this same date, and the crop's condition was rated as 45 percent good and 45 percent in fair condition. During December, harvest made little progress in the central valley, due to the poor drying conditions, and some unharvested cotton fields were plowed under because of deteriorating lint quality and unopened bolls. A few fields were second picked, and plowdown for pink bollworm control was ongoing on sandier soils. 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