Ct Gn 1 (05) United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service Cotton Ginnings 2004 Summary May 2005 Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, State, and United States, Crop Years 2001-04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : : State : 2001 : 2002 : 2003 : 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 907,300 566,200 799,950 797,350 AZ : 656,850 596,200 514,000 678,350 AR : 1,788,400 1,615,150 1,735,600 2,016,500 CA : 2,358,250 2,008,300 1,822,950 2,414,850 FL 1/ : 67,300 122,200 92,900 GA : 2,159,050 1,549,550 2,041,400 1,749,800 KS 1/ : 68,300 89,200 65,350 LA : 1,044,600 749,050 1,028,300 888,250 MS : 2,339,250 1,880,500 2,063,250 2,274,250 MO : 673,800 579,200 675,800 808,700 NM : 70,800 58,700 56,800 67,750 NC : 1,640,550 782,300 1,007,450 1,324,150 OK : 194,850 203,500 205,350 289,050 SC : 404,200 127,000 311,450 369,100 TN : 950,150 788,950 853,900 958,550 TX : 4,232,800 4,981,500 4,274,850 7,618,050 VA : 177,900 88,750 106,450 142,600 : US : 19,771,200 16,710,450 17,708,900 22,555,550 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 14,100 16,800 4,400 5,300 CA : 617,900 581,500 356,450 656,200 NM : 12,900 18,000 12,550 17,650 TX : 32,800 38,700 43,450 37,750 : US : 677,700 655,000 416,850 716,900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2003-04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : Equivalent 480-Pound Type : Running Bales Produced : Bales Ginned and :-------------------------------------------------------------- State : 2003 : 2004 : 2003 : 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 789,300 783,700 828,450 826,750 AZ : 535,950 707,450 530,000 698,300 AR : 1,755,150 2,035,200 1,784,050 2,069,450 CA : 1,801,050 2,385,200 1,886,500 2,502,550 FL : 113,200 105,850 125,900 95,800 GA : 2,045,700 1,743,100 2,106,050 1,803,000 KS : 86,800 67,850 91,950 68,050 LA : 1,000,100 861,200 1,055,500 912,300 MS : 2,067,350 2,285,000 2,115,700 2,334,400 MO : 682,950 812,500 693,400 826,200 NM : 82,000 129,350 57,450 68,800 NC : 996,900 1,305,450 1,047,950 1,379,600 OK : 212,600 295,150 209,850 295,750 SC : 314,750 376,400 322,350 381,800 TN : 863,050 956,350 878,800 985,300 TX : 4,246,000 7,549,450 4,397,450 7,844,900 VA : 116,050 156,350 109,450 146,950 : US : 17,708,900 22,555,550 18,240,800 23,239,900 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 4,400 5,350 4,600 5,500 CA : 356,450 656,250 370,500 682,700 NM : 13,100 18,450 12,650 17,850 TX : 42,900 36,900 44,400 38,750 : US : 416,850 716,950 432,150 744,800 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : October 1 : October 15 : November 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 38,300 170,250 355,850 AZ : 51,600 102,800 185,500 AR : 113,500 503,150 1,019,100 CA : 19,450 267,750 694,150 FL 1/ : 11,000 36,250 GA : 82,400 293,850 723,150 LA : 131,200 321,650 605,550 MS : 367,300 832,650 1,420,750 MO : 28,250 186,000 383,150 NM 1/ : 400 7,600 NC : 46,700 244,200 560,000 OK : 1,850 21,550 65,300 SC : 16,350 71,800 160,750 TN : 61,450 229,550 451,200 TX : 1,265,750 1,512,350 2,041,350 VA 1/ : 19,450 48,300 : US : 2,226,500 4,788,400 8,757,950 : Amer-Pima : AZ 1/ : CA 1/ : 55,900 165,600 NM 1/ : 0 0 TX 1/ : 5,800 : US 2/ : 56,300 173,350 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : November 15 : December 1 : December 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 517,150 654,150 723,300 AZ : 281,800 354,900 440,050 AR : 1,408,650 1,766,150 1,946,600 CA : 1,071,600 1,457,400 1,798,750 FL : 58,650 77,750 86,900 GA : 1,084,000 1,397,600 1,603,950 KS 3/ : 5,100 9,800 LA : 773,100 862,500 881,600 MS : 1,846,750 2,124,650 2,227,400 MO : 539,600 692,800 782,950 NM : 19,400 30,950 44,100 NC : 833,950 1,104,400 1,262,850 OK : 103,200 130,850 175,600 SC : 235,400 295,850 336,300 TN : 622,750 811,300 912,400 TX : 2,539,350 2,874,200 3,701,700 VA : 83,350 113,900 138,100 : US : 12,018,700 14,754,450 17,072,350 : Amer-Pima : AZ 1/ : CA : 264,350 352,500 432,900 NM 1/ : TX : 12,400 19,300 27,450 : US : 281,300 380,750 475,200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Running Bales Ginned (Excluding Linters) by Type, Survey Period, State, and United States, Crop Year 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type and : : : State : January 1 : January 15 : February 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : AL : 769,300 792,850 797,100 AZ : 534,600 588,050 642,450 AR : 2,006,500 2,015,050 2,016,400 CA : 2,059,750 2,197,300 2,298,950 FL : 91,700 92,800 92,800 GA : 1,711,700 1,743,900 1,749,150 KS : 18,300 24,550 40,950 LA : 888,200 888,200 888,200 MS : 2,263,700 2,271,800 2,273,700 MO : 806,800 809,200 809,300 NM : 55,050 64,650 67,650 NC : 1,304,050 1,319,550 1,323,150 OK : 219,950 242,550 265,400 SC : 356,000 367,950 368,500 TN : 947,150 957,650 958,350 TX : 4,751,600 5,636,050 6,514,750 VA : 140,400 142,600 142,600 : US : 18,924,750 20,154,700 21,249,400 : Amer-Pima : AZ : 4,850 4,900 5,300 CA : 496,600 542,600 595,500 NM : 14,600 16,550 17,650 TX : 33,950 37,150 37,850 : US : 550,000 601,200 656,300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Not published to avoid disclosing individual gins, but included in U.S. totals. 2/ Not published to avoid disclosing individual gins, but included in the all cotton U.S. total. 3/ Kansas first estimate is December 1. 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 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : All Cotton : : Autauga 1/: 10,750 Baldwin 1/: 16,450 Barbour : 0 0 8,100 Bibb : 0 0 450 Blount 1/: 4,350 Bullock : 0 0 1,400 Butler : 0 0 1,050 Calhoun : 0 0 6,400 Chambers : 0 0 600 Cherokee 1/: 27,900 Chilton 1/: 1,450 Choctaw : 0 0 650 Clarke 1/: 0 0 Coffee 1/: 18,850 Colbert 1/: 45,650 Conecuh : 0 0 5,250 Covington 1/: 19,050 Crenshaw 1/: 1,850 Cullman : 0 0 3,100 Dale : 0 0 10,250 Dallas : 0 0 18,300 Dekalb 1/: 0 0 Elmore 1/: 19,200 Escambia 1/: 19,850 Etowah : 0 0 5,450 Franklin : 0 0 3,750 Geneva 1/: 23,900 Greene 1/: 1,400 Hale : 0 0 1,450 Henry 1/: 24,500 Houston 1/: 33,000 Jackson : 0 0 10,200 Lamar : 0 0 4,000 Lauderdale : 47,650 49,850 46,500 Lawrence 1/: 65,100 Lee : 0 0 3,250 Limestone : 120,650 125,700 110,200 Lowndes 1/: 2,550 Macon 1/: 8,850 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Madison : 73,200 75,950 104,800 Marengo 1/: 5,400 Marion : 0 0 2,200 Marshall : 0 0 1,250 Mobile 1/: 12,800 Monroe 1/: 19,850 Montgomery : 0 0 2,100 Morgan : 0 0 4,150 Perry : 0 0 3,550 Pike : 0 0 6,550 Russell 1/: 8,100 Shelby : 0 0 7,150 Talladega : 0 0 8,600 Tallapoosa 1/: 1,550 Tuscaloosa 1/: 6,800 Washington : 0 0 1,350 Wilcox : 0 0 1,800 Other 2/: 100 : Alabama : 797,350 826,750 783,700 : Cochise 1/: 4,350 Graham 1/: 49,400 Greenlee : 0 0 1,100 La Paz 1/: 70,550 Maricopa : 216,500 223,450 137,750 Mohave 1/: 11,800 Pima 1/: 29,900 Pinal : 272,700 278,600 321,200 Yuma : 82,900 85,650 81,400 : Arizona : 678,350 698,300 707,450 : Arkansas 1/: 0 0 Ashley : 123,900 126,650 122,800 Chicot 1/: 83,900 Clay 1/: 59,950 Craighead : 198,000 203,400 204,600 Crittenden : 93,550 95,550 79,050 Cross : 0 0 8,250 Desha : 274,600 280,900 197,900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Drew 1/: 55,950 Greene : 41,350 41,550 37,550 Jackson : 0 0 2,600 Jefferson : 88,700 91,400 80,500 Lafayette 1/: 6,800 Lee 1/: 129,100 Lincoln 1/: 89,950 Little River 1/: 0 0 Lonoke : 62,450 63,700 54,250 Miller : 0 0 1,250 Mississippi : 442,650 454,550 461,650 Monroe 1/: 29,900 Phillips : 185,050 190,650 139,050 Poinsett : 157,500 162,150 119,050 Prairie : 0 0 2,350 Pulaski : 0 0 750 St. Francis : 87,750 90,400 47,850 Woodruff : 0 0 19,850 Other 2/: 150 : Arkansas : 2,016,500 2,069,450 2,035,200 : Butte 1/: 0 0 Colusa 1/: 12,950 Fresno : 891,900 927,400 781,050 Glenn : 0 0 6,750 Imperial 1/: 28,650 Kern : 441,250 456,250 424,300 Kings : 435,250 453,850 554,700 Madera 1/: 49,350 Merced 1/: 227,350 Riverside 1/: 82,900 San Bernardino : 0 0 1,900 San Joaquin 1/: 0 0 Sutter 1/: 2,550 Tulare : 248,650 256,250 211,800 : California : 2,414,850 2,502,550 2,385,200 : Calhoun : 0 0 7,550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Escambia 1/: 11,850 Gadsen : 0 0 750 Hamilton 1/: 0 0 Holmes : 0 0 2,050 Jackson 1/: 40,150 Jefferson : 0 0 1,150 Madison : 0 0 850 Okaloosa : 0 0 5,150 Santa Rosa 1/: 27,550 Suwannee 1/: 0 0 Walton : 0 0 5,850 Washington : 0 0 2,450 : Florida : 92,900 95,800 105,850 : Appling 1/: 33,950 Atkinson : 0 0 12,650 Bacon : 0 0 10,900 Baker : 0 0 43,950 Bartow 1/: 2,550 Ben Hill : 0 0 7,500 Berrien : 61,750 63,400 27,650 Bleckley 1/: 18,550 Brooks 1/: 45,000 Bryan : 0 0 2,200 Bulloch 1/: 37,800 Burke : 67,050 69,450 45,350 Calhoun 1/: 29,000 Candler 1/: 11,050 Carroll 1/: 0 0 Clay : 0 0 14,600 Coffee 1/: 38,050 Colquitt : 227,050 233,850 120,200 Cook : 0 0 38,450 Crawford : 0 0 1,250 Crisp 1/: 41,300 Decatur 1/: 59,500 Dodge 1/: 15,500 Dooly : 158,500 163,250 96,650 Dougherty : 0 0 10,750 Early 1/: 72,600 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Effingham : 0 0 4,200 Elbert : 0 0 3,250 Emanuel : 0 0 18,200 Evans : 0 0 8,250 Floyd : 0 0 3,850 Glascock : 0 0 1,600 Grady : 0 0 33,350 Hart 1/: 0 0 Henry 1/: 0 0 Houston : 0 0 18,350 Irwin 1/: 25,050 Jeff Davis 1/: 27,550 Jefferson 1/: 17,000 Jenkins : 0 0 19,000 Johnson : 0 0 3,000 Lamar : 0 0 650 Lanier : 0 0 7,200 Laurens 1/: 7,500 Lee 1/: 30,400 Lowndes 1/: 9,250 Macon : 0 0 20,900 Marion : 0 0 2,100 McDuffie 1/: 0 0 Miller 1/: 66,750 Mitchell 1/: 81,400 Monroe : 0 0 350 Montgomery : 0 0 2,200 Morgan 1/: 1,250 Oconee : 0 0 400 Peach : 0 0 10,650 Pierce : 0 0 10,300 Pike 1/: 0 0 Polk : 0 0 2,650 Pulaski 1/: 32,150 Quitman : 0 0 800 Randolph 1/: 19,600 Schley : 0 0 1,850 Screven 1/: 26,850 Seminole 1/: 53,950 Stewart : 0 0 5,050 Sumter 1/: 34,400 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Tattnall : 0 0 9,750 Taylor 1/: 5,150 Telfair : 0 0 7,950 Terrell 1/: 31,950 Thomas 1/: 34,400 Tift 1/: 29,300 Toombs : 0 0 4,000 Treutlen : 0 0 2,600 Turner 1/: 26,950 Twiggs : 0 0 4,300 Walker : 0 0 450 Walton : 0 0 400 Ware : 0 0 4,950 Warren : 0 0 350 Washington : 0 0 3,550 Wayne : 0 0 12,800 Webster : 0 0 11,350 Wheeler : 0 0 2,200 Wilcox 1/: 28,550 Wilkes 1/: 0 0 Wilkinson : 0 0 400 Worth 1/: 72,650 : Georgia : 1,749,800 1,803,000 1,743,100 : Kansas : 65,350 68,050 67,850 : Avoyelles 1/: 22,250 Bienville : 0 0 1,350 Bossier : 0 0 2,500 Caddo : 41,350 43,100 34,350 Caldwell : 0 0 12,200 Catahoula : 65,950 67,350 74,300 Concordia : 61,350 62,100 60,000 Desoto : 0 0 1,700 East Carroll : 95,450 98,000 58,000 Evangeline : 0 0 750 Franklin : 131,000 136,150 73,050 Grant : 0 0 900 Lasalle : 0 0 500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Madison 1/: 105,200 Morehouse : 121,250 124,000 102,100 Natchitoches : 0 0 7,850 Ouachita 1/: 24,300 Pointe Coupe 1/: 10,800 Rapides : 38,200 38,650 26,650 Red River 1/: 8,500 Richland : 78,350 81,300 56,600 Saint Landry : 0 0 3,250 Tensas : 120,000 122,500 152,650 West Carroll 1/: 21,450 : Louisiana : 888,250 912,300 861,200 : Adams : 0 0 11,300 Alcorn : 0 0 550 Attala : 0 0 12,050 Benton 1/: 3,400 Bolivar : 197,200 202,000 175,400 Calhoun : 52,750 54,300 51,850 Carroll 1/: 28,900 Chickasaw : 0 0 6,550 Choctaw : 0 0 1,400 Claiborne : 0 0 8,150 Clay : 0 0 1,000 Coahoma : 246,000 251,550 240,100 Copiah : 0 0 1,300 Covington : 0 0 1,400 Desoto 1/: 19,200 Forrest : 0 0 1,750 George : 0 0 5,100 Greene : 0 0 1,300 Grenada : 0 0 13,950 Hinds 1/: 21,250 Holmes : 130,250 135,750 124,500 Humphreys : 92,250 94,150 144,600 Issaquena : 0 0 43,900 Itawamba : 0 0 550 Jackson : 0 0 1,000 Jefferson 1/: 5,350 Jones 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Lafayette 1/: 8,900 Lawrence : 0 0 750 Leake : 0 0 950 Lee 1/: 39,150 Leflore : 209,250 216,250 180,650 Lowndes : 0 0 3,300 Madison 1/: 24,500 Marshall : 0 0 650 Monroe 1/: 14,400 Montgomery 1/: 15,850 Newton : 0 0 650 Noxubee : 0 0 14,500 Oktibbeha 1/: 0 0 Panola : 65,500 67,900 69,350 Perry : 0 0 2,200 Pontotoc 1/: 12,000 Prentiss : 0 0 400 Quitman : 94,700 96,500 60,000 Rankin 1/: 8,600 Scott : 0 0 1,150 Sharkey : 97,150 99,500 92,200 Sunflower : 183,600 187,450 132,150 Tallahatchie : 67,900 69,900 120,050 Tate : 0 0 19,700 Tippah : 0 0 3,850 Tishomingo : 0 0 1,800 Tunica : 90,150 91,950 125,900 Union : 0 0 500 Warren 1/: 19,250 Washington : 172,800 175,550 196,800 Webster 1/: 16,400 Yalobusha 1/: 17,750 Yazoo : 230,150 237,300 154,550 : Mississippi : 2,274,250 2,334,400 2,285,000 : Douglas 1/: 0 0 Dunklin : 334,200 340,750 305,950 Mississippi 1/: 0 0 New Madrid : 211,000 216,750 202,150 Pemiscot : 148,050 151,500 170,850 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Scott 1/: 31,350 Stoddard 1/: 101,950 : Missouri : 808,700 826,200 812,500 : Chaves 1/: 5,400 Curry : 0 0 2,850 Dona Ana 1/: 38,550 Eddy 1/: 13,750 Hidalgo 1/: 0 0 Lea : 0 0 40,500 Luna : 0 0 10,800 Quay 1/: 0 0 Roosevelt : 0 0 16,850 : New Mexico : 67,750 68,800 129,350 : Anson 1/: 7,800 Beaufort 1/: 48,450 Bertie 1/: 64,850 Bladen : 0 0 11,700 Cabarrus 1/: 0 0 Camden : 0 0 1,200 Carteret : 0 0 500 Chowan 1/: 30,200 Cleveland 1/: 4,000 Columbus 1/: 8,750 Craven 1/: 24,700 Cumberland : 0 0 9,800 Davidson : 0 0 1,650 Duplin 1/: 26,600 Edgecombe 1/: 78,750 Franklin 1/: 0 0 Gates 1/: 26,250 Greene 1/: 36,000 Halifax : 94,600 98,700 92,900 Harnett 1/: 23,350 Hertford 1/: 25,250 Hoke : 0 0 30,900 Hyde 1/: 31,900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Iredell : 0 0 1,250 Johnston : 0 0 20,250 Jones 1/: 35,950 Lee : 0 0 650 Lenoir 1/: 49,700 Martin 1/: 62,900 Montgomery : 0 0 2,650 Nash 1/: 33,050 New Hanover 1/: 0 0 Northampton : 116,650 122,650 109,800 Onslow : 0 0 9,550 Pamlico : 0 0 6,150 Pasquotank : 0 0 4,850 Pender : 0 0 11,750 Perquimans 1/: 32,800 Pitt : 79,300 82,750 60,200 Richmond : 0 0 3,200 Robeson 1/: 45,700 Rowan : 0 0 1,600 Rutherford 1/: 500 Sampson 1/: 55,650 Scotland 1/: 23,500 Stanly 1/: 16,850 Tyrrell : 0 0 8,450 Union : 0 0 9,150 Wake 1/: 0 0 Warren : 0 0 1,200 Washington : 0 0 28,100 Wayne 1/: 38,900 Wilson 1/: 45,200 : North Carolina : 1,324,150 1,379,600 1,305,450 : Alfalfa : 0 0 450 Atoka 1/: 0 0 Beckham 1/: 4,000 Caddo 1/: 10,400 Canadian : 0 0 3,200 Cleveland 1/: 0 0 Comanche : 0 0 6,250 Cotton : 0 0 1,900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Custer 1/: 1,800 Garvin 1/: 0 0 Grady 1/: 850 Grant : 0 0 1,550 Greer : 0 0 9,100 Harmon : 30,850 31,600 39,750 Jackson : 150,400 153,450 114,650 Kay 1/: 4,500 Kiowa 1/: 6,950 Mcclain : 0 0 450 Mccurtain : 0 0 1,100 Noble 1/: 0 0 Oklahoma : 0 0 300 Roger Mills : 0 0 550 Texas : 0 0 1,950 Tillman : 61,800 62,600 75,700 Washita 1/: 9,050 Woods 1/: 0 0 : Oklahoma : 289,050 295,750 295,150 : Abbeville 1/: 0 0 Aiken : 0 0 9,450 Allendale 1/: 2,100 Anderson : 0 0 1,050 Bamberg : 0 0 10,050 Barnwell : 0 0 5,550 Berkeley 1/: 0 0 Calhoun : 60,650 62,250 37,550 Cherokee 1/: 0 0 Chester : 0 0 2,100 Chesterfield : 0 0 1,700 Clarendon 1/: 2,650 Colleton : 0 0 1,750 Darlington 1/: 57,900 Dillon 1/: 26,400 Dorchester : 0 0 10,750 Edgefield : 0 0 750 Florence : 0 0 10,850 Georgetown : 0 0 1,100 Hampton 1/: 11,100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Horry : 0 0 4,050 Kershaw : 0 0 550 Laurens 1/: 0 0 Lee 1/: 29,550 Lexington : 0 0 4,900 Marion : 0 0 4,500 Marlboro : 51,900 54,200 47,750 Newberry : 0 0 1,050 Orangeburg : 70,650 72,600 48,200 Richland : 0 0 2,000 Saluda 1/: 1,700 Sumter : 29,750 31,100 7,600 Williamsburg 1/: 25,800 York : 0 0 5,500 : South Carolina : 369,100 381,800 376,400 : Carroll 1/: 35,050 Chester : 0 0 2,850 Coffee 1/: 0 0 Crockett : 180,700 184,000 127,800 Dyer : 0 0 55,450 Fayette 1/: 71,100 Franklin : 0 0 7,600 Gibson : 48,400 49,850 60,750 Giles : 0 0 3,550 Grundy 1/: 0 0 Hardeman 1/: 30,400 Hardin : 0 0 1,050 Haywood : 236,650 243,450 199,450 Henderson : 0 0 4,550 Lake 1/: 29,900 Lauderdale : 88,800 91,000 84,100 Lawrence : 0 0 650 Lincoln 1/: 24,100 Madison 1/: 64,900 Mcnairy : 0 0 5,450 Obion : 0 0 5,250 Rutherford : 0 0 4,600 Shelby : 0 0 26,300 Tipton : 151,350 157,200 109,950 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Weakley : 0 0 1,250 : Tennessee : 958,550 985,300 956,350 : Anderson : 0 0 2,050 Andrews : 0 0 18,700 Aransas : 0 0 1,350 Archer : 0 0 300 Atascosa : 0 0 2,100 Austin : 0 0 8,750 Bailey : 110,550 113,800 89,550 Baylor : 0 0 5,300 Bee : 0 0 13,500 Bell : 0 0 1,500 Bexar : 0 0 3,850 Borden 1/: 40,950 Brazoria : 20,850 22,150 13,600 Brazos 1/: 15,950 Briscoe 1/: 22,050 Brooks : 0 0 550 Brown : 0 0 350 Burleson 1/: 27,750 Caldwell 1/: 5,250 Calhoun 1/: 32,800 Cameron : 76,850 78,350 84,100 Carson 1/: 15,550 Castro : 77,300 79,100 106,750 Childress 1/: 47,400 Clay 1/: 0 0 Cochran 1/: 148,050 Coke 1/: 700 Coleman : 0 0 5,200 Collin 1/: 2,550 Collingsworth1/: 64,250 Colorado : 0 0 6,050 Concho 1/: 27,300 Coryell 1/: 0 0 Cottle 1/: 17,600 Crosby : 299,200 308,450 302,600 Culberson 1/: 600 Dawson : 237,950 246,350 271,400 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : De Witt : 0 0 600 Deaf Smith 1/: 21,950 Delta : 0 0 850 Denton 1/: 0 0 Dickens 1/: 16,950 Donley 1/: 8,550 Duval : 0 0 900 El Paso 1/: 42,200 Ellis : 26,500 27,750 30,900 Falls 1/: 9,500 Fannin 1/: 0 0 Fisher 1/: 63,100 Floyd : 240,100 266,150 256,100 Foard : 0 0 7,850 Fort Bend : 69,050 71,400 74,500 Frio : 0 0 5,300 Gaines : 411,600 418,650 326,400 Garza 1/: 44,650 Glasscock 1/: 67,900 Goliad : 0 0 3,250 Gonzales : 0 0 1,000 Gray : 0 0 2,350 Grimes : 0 0 1,500 Guadalupe : 0 0 500 Hale : 457,150 469,350 385,800 Hall : 76,000 79,450 95,050 Hardeman 1/: 8,550 Haskell : 76,300 79,200 79,950 Hays : 0 0 2,100 Hidalgo : 68,000 69,950 87,650 Hill : 33,400 34,600 25,750 Hockley : 469,700 482,800 276,400 Houston 1/: 2,450 Howard : 82,200 83,950 75,550 Hudspeth : 0 0 15,200 Hunt 1/: 2,050 Irion : 0 0 800 Jackson 1/: 69,050 Jim Wells : 0 0 31,550 Johnson : 0 0 300 Jones : 91,500 94,150 72,500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Karnes : 0 0 33,850 Kent 1/: 3,350 King : 0 0 1,400 Kinney : 0 0 1,050 Kleberg 1/: 11,550 Knox 1/: 48,700 La Salle : 0 0 1,050 Lamar 1/: 1,800 Lamb : 371,500 382,500 331,950 Leon 1/: 0 0 Limestone : 0 0 2,700 Live Oak : 0 0 2,150 Lubbock : 579,800 592,100 357,650 Lynn : 303,700 309,750 323,800 Madison : 0 0 300 Martin : 140,650 144,450 96,900 Matagorda 1/: 31,600 Mcculloch : 0 0 6,900 Mclennan 1/: 8,550 Medina : 0 0 26,850 Midland 1/: 21,300 Milam 1/: 8,550 Mitchell : 49,350 51,150 44,500 Moore : 0 0 2,450 Motley 1/: 25,350 Navarro 1/: 12,100 Nolan 1/: 55,750 Nueces : 166,600 169,700 151,500 Parmer : 104,200 107,150 120,200 Pecos 1/: 16,850 Potter 1/: 0 0 Rains 1/: 0 0 Randall : 0 0 3,350 Reagan : 0 0 41,300 Red River : 0 0 4,150 Reeves 1/: 4,800 Refugio 1/: 58,700 Robertson 1/: 35,950 Rockwall : 0 0 550 Runnels : 86,150 87,800 71,250 San Patricio : 388,300 399,550 286,450 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Schleicher : 0 0 9,500 Scurry : 60,350 61,400 49,400 Shackelford : 0 0 3,050 Starr : 0 0 4,900 Stonewall : 0 0 3,800 Swisher : 73,400 75,600 86,850 Taylor 1/: 11,850 Terry : 285,300 293,900 321,350 Throckmorton 1/: 400 Tom Green : 116,400 120,250 110,450 Travis : 0 0 2,200 Upton 1/: 22,300 Uvalde : 0 0 37,500 Victoria : 0 0 13,200 Walker 1/: 1,550 Waller 1/: 0 0 Washington 1/: 0 0 Wharton : 166,550 169,600 95,700 Wheeler : 0 0 11,200 Wichita : 0 0 8,300 Wilbarger : 46,150 47,550 32,400 Willacy : 183,950 188,350 152,200 Williamson : 51,250 52,650 39,350 Wilson : 0 0 3,750 Yoakum : 139,100 143,050 133,800 Young : 0 0 950 Zavala 1/: 14,850 Other 2/: 496,550 : Texas : 7,618,050 7,844,900 7,549,450 : Accomack 1/: 1,000 Brunswick : 0 0 750 Charles City : 0 0 1,250 Dinwiddie : 0 0 600 Greensville 1/: 12,700 Henrico 1/: 0 0 Isle of Wight 1/: 14,000 King William : 0 0 1,650 New Kent : 0 0 650 Northampton : 0 0 950 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Running Bales : Equivalent 480-Pound : Running Bales and State : Ginned : Bales Ginned : Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Prince George1/ : 0 0 Southampton : 0 0 74,900 Suffolk City 1/ : 33,050 Surry : 0 0 4,700 Sussex : 0 0 9,650 : Virginia : 142,600 146,950 156,350 : : US TOTAL : 22,555,550 23,239,900 22,555,550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Autauga : 2 509.2 291 Baldwin : 1 508.2 250 Barbour : 0 0.0 327 Bibb : 0 0.0 547 Blount : 1 495.7 379 Bullock : 0 0.0 472 Butler : 0 0.0 496 Calhoun : 0 0.0 347 Chambers : 0 0.0 531 Cherokee : 2 494.6 191 Chilton : 1 502.0 470 Choctaw : 0 0.0 524 Clarke : 0 0.0 565 Coffee : 1 491.4 237 Colbert : 2 494.8 129 Conecuh : 0 0.0 361 Covington : 1 498.0 235 Crenshaw : 1 500.6 450 Cullman : 0 0.0 409 Dale : 0 0.0 297 Dallas : 0 0.0 241 Dekalb : 0 0.0 556 Elmore : 1 503.5 233 Escambia : 1 501.9 227 Etowah : 0 0.0 354 Franklin : 0 0.0 394 Geneva : 2 498.7 215 Greene : 1 490.0 473 Hale : 0 0.0 471 Henry : 2 486.1 211 Houston : 1 485.5 166 Jackson : 0 0.0 298 Lamar : 0 0.0 386 Lauderdale : 3 502.4 127 Lawrence : 3 499.8 94 Lee : 0 0.0 403 Limestone : 5 500.1 50 Lowndes : 1 500.6 420 Macon : 2 501.3 312 Madison : 3 498.0 55 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Marengo : 1 501.9 356 Marion : 0 0.0 430 Marshall : 0 0.0 482 Mobile : 1 508.5 268 Monroe : 1 497.4 228 Montgomery : 0 0.0 437 Morgan : 0 0.0 383 Perry : 0 0.0 396 Pike : 0 0.0 345 Russell : 2 492.8 328 Shelby : 0 0.0 339 Talladega : 0 0.0 315 Tallapoosa : 1 498.1 465 Tuscaloosa : 1 488.3 342 Washington : 0 0.0 477 Wilcox : 0 0.0 452 : Alabama : 44 497.7 : Cochise : 1 492.1 380 Graham : 3 499.5 118 Greenlee : 0 0.0 493 La Paz : 2 500.0 89 Maricopa : 10 495.4 36 Mohave : 1 493.2 278 Pima : 1 510.4 181 Pinal : 11 490.4 11 Yuma : 4 495.9 72 : Arizona : 33 494.1 : Arkansas : 0 0.0 578 Ashley : 4 490.7 43 Chicot : 2 492.7 70 Clay : 1 493.0 104 Craighead : 6 493.1 21 Crittenden : 4 490.3 76 Cross : 0 0.0 324 Desha : 6 491.0 24 Drew : 1 477.7 110 Greene : 3 482.1 151 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Jackson : 0 0.0 418 Jefferson : 6 494.7 74 Lafayette : 1 492.0 343 Lee : 1 496.3 39 Lincoln : 1 499.4 64 Little River : 0 0.0 589 Lonoke : 4 489.7 114 Miller : 0 0.0 483 Mississippi : 11 492.9 3 Monroe : 1 490.0 182 Phillips : 6 494.5 35 Poinsett : 4 494.1 47 Prairie : 0 0.0 428 Pulaski : 0 0.0 517 St. Francis : 3 494.4 124 Woodruff : 0 0.0 229 : Arkansas : 65 492.6 : Butte : 0 0.0 601 Colusa : 1 471.3 267 Fresno : 24 499.0 1 Glenn : 0 0.0 344 Imperial : 1 489.7 188 Kern : 17 496.3 4 Kings : 12 500.5 2 Madera : 2 502.2 120 Merced : 3 494.2 19 Riverside : 2 489.4 71 San Bernardino : 0 0.0 448 San Joaquin : 0 0.0 506 Sutter : 1 501.8 421 Tulare : 8 494.7 20 : California : 71 497.4 : Calhoun : 0 0.0 335 Escambia : 1 485.2 276 Gadsen : 0 0.0 518 Hamilton : 0 0.0 566 Holmes : 0 0.0 443 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Jackson : 1 497.2 142 Jefferson : 0 0.0 491 Madison : 0 0.0 512 Okaloosa : 0 0.0 365 Santa Rosa : 2 496.6 194 Suwannee : 0 0.0 567 Walton : 0 0.0 351 Washington : 0 0.0 425 : Florida : 4 495.0 : Appling : 2 496.2 161 Atkinson : 0 0.0 271 Bacon : 0 0.0 287 Baker : 0 0.0 135 Bartow : 1 480.0 422 Ben Hill : 0 0.0 337 Berrien : 5 492.7 193 Bleckley : 1 495.7 239 Brooks : 2 501.4 132 Bryan : 0 0.0 433 Bulloch : 2 489.4 150 Burke : 4 497.1 130 Calhoun : 2 492.7 186 Candler : 2 489.1 286 Carroll : 0 0.0 602 Clay : 0 0.0 258 Coffee : 2 494.0 149 Colquitt : 7 494.4 44 Cook : 0 0.0 148 Crawford : 0 0.0 484 Crisp : 2 490.0 138 Decatur : 2 492.4 105 Dodge : 1 490.0 255 Dooly : 7 494.4 59 Dougherty : 0 0.0 292 Early : 2 503.8 85 Effingham : 0 0.0 382 Elbert : 0 0.0 404 Emanuel : 0 0.0 242 Evans : 0 0.0 325 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Floyd : 0 0.0 390 Glascock : 0 0.0 463 Grady : 0 0.0 163 Hart : 0 0.0 568 Henry : 0 0.0 591 Houston : 0 0.0 240 Irwin : 1 497.0 209 Jeff Davis : 1 497.5 195 Jefferson : 2 500.4 245 Jenkins : 0 0.0 236 Johnson : 0 0.0 411 Lamar : 0 0.0 525 Lanier : 0 0.0 338 Laurens : 2 491.1 336 Lee : 1 492.1 178 Lowndes : 1 493.7 307 Macon : 0 0.0 225 Marion : 0 0.0 438 McDuffie : 0 0.0 569 Miller : 1 491.0 93 Mitchell : 2 493.2 73 Monroe : 0 0.0 557 Montgomery : 0 0.0 431 Morgan : 2 497.2 485 Oconee : 0 0.0 551 Peach : 0 0.0 294 Pierce : 0 0.0 296 Pike : 0 0.0 579 Polk : 0 0.0 415 Pulaski : 2 495.9 170 Quitman : 0 0.0 515 Randolph : 1 493.0 231 Schley : 0 0.0 451 Screven : 1 495.7 198 Seminole : 1 496.6 115 Stewart : 0 0.0 368 Sumter : 1 501.2 158 Tattnall : 0 0.0 301 Taylor : 1 486.9 366 Telfair : 0 0.0 329 Terrell : 1 497.0 171 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Thomas : 2 492.3 159 Tift : 2 492.7 185 Toombs : 0 0.0 387 Treutlen : 0 0.0 419 Turner : 2 502.8 197 Twiggs : 0 0.0 381 Walker : 0 0.0 548 Walton : 0 0.0 552 Ware : 0 0.0 369 Warren : 0 0.0 558 Washington : 0 0.0 397 Wayne : 0 0.0 269 Webster : 0 0.0 282 Wheeler : 0 0.0 432 Wilcox : 1 497.0 189 Wilkes : 0 0.0 590 Wilkinson : 0 0.0 553 Worth : 1 494.0 84 : Georgia : 73 494.6 : Kansas 1/ : 4 499.9 : Avoyelles : 1 490.9 219 Bienville : 0 0.0 478 Bossier : 0 0.0 424 Caddo : 4 500.3 160 Caldwell : 0 0.0 272 Catahoula : 4 490.1 82 Concordia : 3 485.9 102 Desoto : 0 0.0 458 East Carroll : 4 492.9 107 Evangeline : 0 0.0 519 Franklin : 7 498.9 83 Grant : 0 0.0 510 Lasalle : 0 0.0 541 Madison : 1 488.8 54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Morehouse : 5 490.8 56 Natchitoches : 0 0.0 330 Ouachita : 1 491.5 213 Pointe Coupe : 1 495.3 289 Rapides : 4 485.5 200 Red River : 1 491.3 321 Richland : 4 498.0 109 Saint Landry : 0 0.0 405 Tensas : 5 490.0 30 West Carroll : 2 497.1 222 : Louisiana : 47 493.0 : Adams : 0 0.0 283 Alcorn : 0 0.0 535 Attala : 0 0.0 274 Benton : 1 497.0 399 Bolivar : 8 491.7 27 Calhoun : 3 494.3 116 Carroll : 2 494.6 187 Chickasaw : 0 0.0 346 Choctaw : 0 0.0 474 Claiborne : 0 0.0 326 Clay : 0 0.0 502 Coahoma : 6 490.8 18 Copiah : 0 0.0 480 Covington : 0 0.0 475 Desoto : 2 494.6 234 Forrest : 0 0.0 456 George : 0 0.0 367 Greene : 0 0.0 481 Grenada : 0 0.0 262 Hinds : 1 483.2 224 Holmes : 3 500.3 42 Humphreys : 3 489.8 34 Issaquena : 0 0.0 136 Itawamba : 0 0.0 536 Jackson : 0 0.0 503 Jefferson : 1 503.0 358 Jones : 0 0.0 575 Lafayette : 1 496.0 311 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Lawrence : 0 0.0 520 Leake : 0 0.0 507 Lee : 1 500.0 145 Leflore : 9 496.1 26 Lowndes : 0 0.0 402 Madison : 1 490.0 212 Marshall : 0 0.0 526 Monroe : 2 497.1 260 Montgomery : 1 498.0 253 Newton : 0 0.0 527 Noxubee : 0 0.0 259 Oktibbeha : 0 0.0 580 Panola : 3 497.6 90 Perry : 0 0.0 434 Pontotoc : 1 485.0 275 Prentiss : 0 0.0 554 Quitman : 4 489.1 103 Rankin : 1 493.0 316 Scott : 0 0.0 492 Sharkey : 5 491.6 63 Sunflower : 7 490.1 38 Tallahatchie : 4 494.1 46 Tate : 0 0.0 230 Tippah : 0 0.0 391 Tishomingo : 0 0.0 453 Tunica : 5 489.6 41 Union : 0 0.0 542 Warren : 1 487.0 232 Washington : 9 487.6 25 Webster : 1 486.0 251 Yalobusha : 1 488.0 243 Yazoo : 7 494.9 29 : Mississippi : 94 492.7 : Douglas : 0 0.0 592 Dunklin : 12 489.4 12 Mississippi : 0 0.0 581 New Madrid : 8 493.1 22 Pemiscot : 7 491.2 28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See footnotes at end of table. -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins, Average Bale Weight, and Rank by County, State, and United States, Crop Year 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Scott : 3 493.4 175 Stoddard : 2 483.4 57 : Missouri : 32 490.4 : Chaves : 1 501.6 357 Curry : 0 0.0 412 Dona Ana : 6 486.4 147 Eddy : 2 479.2 263 Hidalgo : 0 0.0 543 Lea : 0 0.0 141 Luna : 1 493.8 290 Quay : 0 0.0 582 Roosevelt : 0 0.0 247 : New Mexico : 10 487.5 : Anson : 1 498.9 332 Beaufort : 1 489.7 122 Bertie : 2 496.1 96 Bladen : 0 0.0 280 Cabarrus : 0 0.0 585 Camden : 0 0.0 490 Carteret : 0 0.0 545 Chowan : 1 499.4 180 Cleveland : 2 503.1 388 Columbus : 1 503.8 313 Craven : 1 499.3 210 Cumberland : 0 0.0 300 Davidson : 0 0.0 461 Duplin : 1 492.4 201 Edgecombe : 2 496.8 77 Franklin : 0 0.0 583 Gates : 1 497.5 204 Greene : 1 490.0 154 Halifax : 4 500.7 62 Harnett : 1 510.4 217 Hertford : 1 483.9 208 Hoke : 0 0.0 176 Hyde : 1 488.1 172 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Iredell : 0 0.0 486 Johnston : 0 0.0 226 Jones : 1 500.9 155 Lee : 0 0.0 528 Lenoir : 2 500.9 117 Martin : 1 499.6 99 Montgomery : 0 0.0 416 Nash : 1 497.1 164 New Hanover : 0 0.0 593 Northampton : 6 504.7 52 Onslow : 0 0.0 303 Pamlico : 0 0.0 349 Pasquotank : 0 0.0 372 Pender : 0 0.0 279 Perquimans : 1 501.3 167 Pitt : 3 500.9 101 Richmond : 0 0.0 407 Robeson : 3 510.6 128 Rowan : 0 0.0 464 Rutherford : 1 478.0 544 Sampson : 2 494.0 112 Scotland : 1 500.0 216 Stanly : 1 500.0 248 Tyrrell : 0 0.0 322 Union : 0 0.0 308 Wake : 0 0.0 584 Warren : 0 0.0 489 Washington : 0 0.0 190 Wayne : 2 505.6 146 Wilson : 1 505.2 131 : North Carolina : 47 500.1 : Alfalfa : 0 0.0 549 Atoka : 0 0.0 570 Beckham : 2 500.3 389 Caddo : 2 492.3 295 Canadian : 0 0.0 408 Cleveland : 0 0.0 604 Comanche : 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Cotton : 0 0.0 449 Custer : 2 503.3 454 Garvin : 0 0.0 571 Grady : 1 506.4 513 Grant : 0 0.0 466 Greer : 0 0.0 309 Harmon : 3 491.9 143 Jackson : 4 489.8 48 Kay : 2 499.0 377 Kiowa : 3 522.7 340 Mcclain : 0 0.0 550 Mccurtain : 0 0.0 494 Noble : 0 0.0 594 Oklahoma : 0 0.0 561 Roger Mills : 0 0.0 537 Texas : 0 0.0 447 Tillman : 3 486.3 78 Washita : 2 513.6 310 Woods : 0 0.0 603 : Oklahoma : 24 491.1 : Abbeville : 0 0.0 572 Aiken : 0 0.0 306 Allendale : 1 495.5 440 Anderson : 0 0.0 497 Bamberg : 0 0.0 299 Barnwell : 0 0.0 352 Berkeley : 0 0.0 596 Calhoun : 3 492.5 152 Cherokee : 0 0.0 595 Chester : 0 0.0 439 Chesterfield : 0 0.0 459 Clarendon : 2 485.0 417 Colleton : 0 0.0 457 Darlington : 2 494.6 108 Dillon : 2 490.6 202 Dorchester : 0 0.0 293 Edgefield : 0 0.0 521 Florence : 0 0.0 288 Georgetown : 0 0.0 495 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Hampton : 1 498.5 285 Horry : 0 0.0 385 Kershaw : 0 0.0 538 Laurens : 0 0.0 586 Lee : 3 503.7 184 Lexington : 0 0.0 370 Marion : 0 0.0 378 Marlboro : 5 501.2 125 Newberry : 0 0.0 498 Orangeburg : 5 493.2 123 Richland : 0 0.0 446 Saluda : 1 514.4 460 Sumter : 3 501.8 333 Williamsburg : 1 510.1 205 York : 0 0.0 353 : South Carolina : 29 496.5 : Carroll : 1 485.9 157 Chester : 0 0.0 413 Coffee : 0 0.0 576 Crockett : 5 488.7 40 Dyer : 0 0.0 113 Fayette : 2 499.2 88 Franklin : 0 0.0 334 Gibson : 3 494.3 100 Giles : 0 0.0 398 Grundy : 0 0.0 597 Hardeman : 2 491.3 179 Hardin : 0 0.0 499 Haywood : 8 493.8 23 Henderson : 0 0.0 376 Lake : 1 495.9 183 Lauderdale : 3 491.9 68 Lawrence : 0 0.0 529 Lincoln : 1 490.7 214 Madison : 2 493.7 95 Mcnairy : 0 0.0 355 Obion : 0 0.0 362 Rutherford : 0 0.0 375 Shelby : 0 0.0 203 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Tipton : 4 498.6 51 Weakley : 0 0.0 487 : Tennessee : 32 493.4 : Anderson : 0 0.0 445 Andrews : 0 0.0 238 Aransas : 0 0.0 479 Archer : 0 0.0 562 Atascosa : 0 0.0 442 Austin : 0 0.0 314 Bailey : 5 494.2 65 Baylor : 0 0.0 359 Bee : 0 0.0 265 Bell : 0 0.0 468 Bexar : 0 0.0 392 Borden : 1 509.0 140 Brazoria : 3 510.3 264 Brazos : 2 487.4 252 Briscoe : 2 501.4 220 Brooks : 0 0.0 540 Brown : 0 0.0 559 Burleson : 1 485.9 192 Caldwell : 1 490.0 363 Calhoun : 1 492.0 168 Cameron : 6 489.3 69 Carson : 1 480.0 254 Castro : 4 491.2 53 Childress : 1 491.0 126 Clay : 0 0.0 587 Cochran : 2 488.2 33 Coke : 1 500.0 523 Coleman : 0 0.0 364 Collin : 1 480.0 423 Collingsworth : 2 508.0 97 Colorado : 0 0.0 350 Concho : 1 490.0 196 Coryell : 0 0.0 605 Cottle : 1 496.2 244 Crosby : 6 494.8 13 Culberson : 1 495.0 532 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Dawson : 10 496.9 16 De Witt : 0 0.0 533 Deaf Smith : 2 494.7 221 Delta : 0 0.0 514 Denton : 0 0.0 599 Dickens : 1 480.0 246 Donley : 1 502.0 317 Duval : 0 0.0 511 El Paso : 4 493.3 137 Ellis : 3 502.2 177 Falls : 2 498.8 304 Fannin : 0 0.0 606 Fisher : 3 491.6 98 Floyd : 9 532.1 17 Foard : 0 0.0 331 Fort Bend : 5 496.3 81 Frio : 0 0.0 360 Gaines : 9 488.2 8 Garza : 1 485.0 133 Glasscock : 1 504.0 92 Goliad : 0 0.0 406 Gonzales : 0 0.0 504 Gray : 0 0.0 429 Grimes : 0 0.0 469 Guadalupe : 0 0.0 546 Hale : 15 492.8 5 Hall : 4 501.7 61 Hardeman : 1 500.5 318 Haskell : 6 498.3 75 Hays : 0 0.0 441 Hidalgo : 5 493.7 66 Hill : 4 496.9 206 Hockley : 8 493.4 15 Houston : 1 490.0 427 Howard : 4 490.1 79 Hudspeth : 0 0.0 256 Hunt : 1 471.9 444 Irion : 0 0.0 516 Jackson : 1 500.0 91 Jim Wells : 0 0.0 174 Johnson : 0 0.0 563 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Jones : 7 493.9 86 Karnes : 0 0.0 162 Kent : 1 495.2 401 King : 0 0.0 476 Kinney : 0 0.0 500 Kleberg : 2 493.9 281 Knox : 1 508.0 121 La Salle : 0 0.0 501 Lamar : 1 486.0 455 Lamb : 9 494.2 7 Leon : 0 0.0 573 Limestone : 0 0.0 414 Live Oak : 0 0.0 436 Lubbock : 11 490.2 6 Lynn : 8 489.6 9 Madison : 0 0.0 564 Martin : 6 493.0 58 Matagorda : 1 485.0 173 Mcculloch : 0 0.0 341 Mclennan : 1 505.0 319 Medina : 0 0.0 199 Midland : 1 485.0 223 Milam : 1 491.2 320 Mitchell : 3 497.5 134 Moore : 0 0.0 426 Motley : 2 495.3 207 Navarro : 2 490.0 273 Nolan : 1 506.0 111 Nueces : 6 488.9 32 Parmer : 8 493.5 45 Pecos : 1 482.8 249 Potter : 0 0.0 598 Rains : 0 0.0 600 Randall : 0 0.0 400 Reagan : 0 0.0 139 Red River : 0 0.0 384 Reeves : 2 474.3 373 Refugio : 1 494.0 106 Robertson : 2 491.6 156 Rockwall : 0 0.0 539 Runnels : 4 489.3 87 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : San Patricio : 8 493.9 14 Schleicher : 0 0.0 305 Scurry : 3 488.3 119 Shackelford : 0 0.0 410 Starr : 0 0.0 371 Stonewall : 0 0.0 393 Swisher : 4 494.5 67 Taylor : 1 475.0 277 Terry : 7 494.5 10 Throckmorton : 1 500.0 555 Tom Green : 5 495.9 49 Travis : 0 0.0 435 Upton : 1 493.8 218 Uvalde : 0 0.0 153 Victoria : 0 0.0 266 Walker : 2 515.3 467 Waller : 0 0.0 577 Washington : 0 0.0 574 Wharton : 5 488.8 60 Wheeler : 0 0.0 284 Wichita : 0 0.0 323 Wilbarger : 3 494.7 169 Willacy : 5 491.5 31 Williamson : 5 493.0 144 Wilson : 0 0.0 395 Yoakum : 4 493.6 37 Young : 0 0.0 508 Zavala : 2 490.1 257 : Texas : 282 494.3 : Accomack : 1 492.5 505 Brunswick : 0 0.0 522 Charles City : 0 0.0 488 Dinwiddie : 0 0.0 534 Greensville : 1 490.2 270 Henrico : 0 0.0 588 Isle of Wight : 2 499.6 261 King William : 0 0.0 462 New Kent : 0 0.0 530 Northampton : 0 0.0 509 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County : Number of : Average Weight per : Rank by Running and State : Active Gins : Running Bale Ginned : Bales Produced ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Number Pounds Rank : Prince George : 0 0.0 560 Southampton : 0 0.0 80 Suffolk City : 1 489.4 165 Surry : 0 0.0 374 Sussex : 0 0.0 302 : Virginia : 5 494.7 : : US TOTAL : 896 494.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Withheld to avoid disclosing individual data. Note: County of origin was not determined for approximately 496,800 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 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All cotton : : : : : : US 1/ : 896 : CA : 71 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 48 : 1 - 2,999 : 6 3,000 - 4,999 : 35 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 0 5,000 - 6,999 : 40 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 1 7,000 - 9,999 : 67 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 2 10,000 - 14,999 : 126 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 5 15,000 - 19,999 : 94 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 3 20,000 - 39,999 : 279 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 19 40,000 - and over : 194 : 40,000 - and over : 35 : : : AL : 44 : FL : 4 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 1 : 1 - 2,999 : 0 3,000 - 4,999 : 6 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 0 5,000 - 6,999 : 1 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 0 7,000 - 9,999 : 6 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 0 10,000 - 14,999 : 7 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 1 15,000 - 19,999 : 10 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 0 20,000 - 39,999 : 11 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 2 40,000 - and over : 2 : 40,000 - and over : 1 : : : AZ : 33 : GA : 73 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 5 : 1 - 2,999 : 3 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 2 5,000 - 6,999 : 0 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 1 7,000 - 9,999 : 0 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 5 10,000 - 14,999 : 3 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 12 15,000 - 19,999 : 4 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 14 20,000 - 39,999 : 11 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 18 40,000 - and over : 9 : 40,000 - and over : 18 : : : AR : 65 : KS : 4 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 1 : 1 - 2,999 : 0 3,000 - 4,999 : 0 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 0 5,000 - 6,999 : 1 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 0 7,000 - 9,999 : 8 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 1 10,000 - 14,999 : 5 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 2 15,000 - 19,999 : 8 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 0 20,000 - 39,999 : 25 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 4 40,000 - and over : 17 : 40,000 - and over : 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins and Bales Ginned by Size Group, State, and United States, Crop Year 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : : LA : 47 : NC : 47 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 1 : 1 - 2,999 : 2 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 0 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 2 10,000 - 14,999 : 16 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 4 15,000 - 19,999 : 8 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 3 20,000 - 39,999 : 11 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 24 40,000 - and over : 3 : 40,000 - and over : 11 : : : MS : 94 : OK : 24 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 3 : 1 - 2,999 : 7 3,000 - 4,999 : 4 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 3 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 1 7,000 - 9,999 : 2 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 3 10,000 - 14,999 : 14 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 4 15,000 - 19,999 : 17 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 1 20,000 - 39,999 : 37 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 4 40,000 - and over : 13 : 40,000 - and over : 1 : : : MO : 32 : SC : 29 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 1 : 1 - 2,999 : 3 3,000 - 4,999 : 1 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 2 5,000 - 6,999 : 0 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 2 7,000 - 9,999 : 1 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 5 10,000 - 14,999 : 5 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 6 15,000 - 19,999 : 4 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 2 20,000 - 39,999 : 14 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 9 40,000 - and over : 6 : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : : NM : 10 : TN : 32 : : : 1 - 2,999 : 3 : 1 - 2,999 : 0 3,000 - 4,999 : 0 : 3,000 - 4,999 : 0 5,000 - 6,999 : 4 : 5,000 - 6,999 : 2 7,000 - 9,999 : 1 : 7,000 - 9,999 : 2 10,000 - 14,999 : 0 : 10,000 - 14,999 : 2 15,000 - 19,999 : 0 : 15,000 - 19,999 : 4 20,000 - 39,999 : 2 : 20,000 - 39,999 : 13 40,000 - and over : 0 : 40,000 - and over : 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- continued Cotton Ginnings: Number of Active Gins and Bales Ginned by Size Group, State, and United States, Crop Year 2004 (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Bales : : Running Bales : Ginned by : Number of : Ginned by : Number of Size Group : Active Gins : Size Group : Active Gins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : : TX : 282 : : : : : 1 - 2,999 : 12 : : 3,000 - 4,999 : 14 : : 5,000 - 6,999 : 19 : : 7,000 - 9,999 : 27 : : 10,000 - 14,999 : 43 : : 15,000 - 19,999 : 16 : : 20,000 - 39,999 : 81 : : 40,000 - and over : 70 : : : : : VA : 5 : : : : : 1 - 2,999 : 1 : : 3,000 - 4,999 : 0 : : 5,000 - 6,999 : 0 : : 7,000 - 9,999 : 0 : : 10,000 - 14,999 : 3 : : 15,000 - 19,999 : 0 : : 20,000 - 39,999 : 1 : : 40,000 - and over : 0 : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cotton Ginnings 2004: A total of 22.6 million running bales were ginned during the 2004 season, 27 percent above 2003's ginnings of 17.7 million running bales. A 9 percent increase in acres harvested and a 125-pound yield per acre increase from last season contributed to the higher ginnings. There were 896 active cotton gins during the 2004 season, up from the 890 that operated in 2003. Fifty-three percent of the gins processed more than 20,000 bales in 2004, compared with 41 percent the previous season. Cotton, 2004 Final: Cotton: All cotton production is estimated at 23.3 million 480-pound bales, 27 percent above the 2003 production level. The U.S. all cotton yield averaged 855 pounds per harvested acre, up 125 pounds per acre from a year ago. The 2004 yield and production are both record highs. Upland cotton production is estimated at 22.5 million 480-pound bales, 26 percent more than last year's production. This is the largest production in history, surpassing the 2001 record of 19.6 million 480-pound bales. The U.S. yield for upland cotton is a record high 843 pounds per acre, up 120 pounds more than 2003. American-Pima production totaled 745,600 bales, up 72 percent from 2003 due to a 40 percent increase in harvested area and a 273 pound higher yield per acre. American-Pima yield and production are both record highs. The area planted to all cotton totaled 13.7 million acres, up 1 percent from 2003. Harvested area increased 9 percent from the previous year to 13.1 million acres. Data from the 7 Objective Yield States showed above average boll counts, higher weights than any of the previous six seasons, and above average harvest loss. Alabama and Georgia experienced drought conditions early in the 2004 growing season. However, by mid-June, all of the Southeastern States were ahead of their normal planting pace. Consequently, crop development was ahead of normal pace through July. During the months of August and September, six Hurricanes (Alex, Charley, Frances, Gaston, Ivan, and Jeanne) crossed over different regions of the Southeast. No major damage was reported in the northeastern areas, while the other regions encountered plants that were blown over and twisted and cotton that was knocked out of the bolls. The damage to the crop was not as severe as originally forecast. Late September and early October temperatures were above normal allowing the crop to mature and growers to make significant harvest progress. Objective yield data for Georgia showed the highest average boll counts in the 7-year data series and above average boll weights. North Carolina boll counts remained above average, while the average boll weights were higher than the previous 6 years. Producers in the majority of the Delta States planted their crop on time despite scattered showers disrupting fieldwork activities. Louisiana overcame persistent rainfall during the peak planting season. Below normal temperatures delayed development during the growing season. Harvest was behind the normal pace due to a late growing season compounded by showers saturating fields. Objective yield boll counts and average boll weights in Mississippi were above average. Louisiana's boll counts and weight per boll were slightly above average. Boll counts in Arkansas were slightly above the 15-year average but boll weights were higher than any of the previous 15 years. Texas growers began the planting season at an above average pace. Rains during the end of June benefitted dryland cotton in the Panhandle and the moisture allowed producers to proceed with planting. Late-planted acres received beneficial rainfall during the month of August. Showers and below normal temperatures switched from being beneficial early in the growing season to delaying progress and maturation later in the season. Growers were concerned that the delayed cotton crop would be unable to finish boll setting, while muddy conditions hindered equipment from entering fields. During the month of December, fields dried allowing growers to make significant progress harvesting their crop. Harvest was near completion by the end of January. Objective yield measurements showed the Texas boll counts and average boll weights as the highest in the 15-year data series. Some Arizona and California upland cotton growers began planting during early-spring, due to above normal temperatures. Despite the favorable weather, some growers delayed planting and waited for more traditional planting dates due to erratic spring weather in the prior years. This resulted in variable cotton growth and development. The continued warm weather conditions in June and July promoted crop development ahead of the 5-year average. In the San Joaquin Valley, harvest started the last week of September. However, rain arrived in mid-October and delayed harvest for many growers. By the end of December, harvest was virtually complete except in Arizona where it was delayed by frequent scattered showers. Data from objective yield measurements showed California boll counts were the second highest in the last 15 years, surpassed only by 2002. Boll weights were below the 15-year average, but the highest since 1998. California began planting American-Pima cotton earlier than normal due to unusually warm weather during the first two weeks of March. Weather conditions remained favorable throughout most of the growing season, promoting rapid growth and development. However, rain delayed harvest in mid-October. By the end of December, harvest was virtually complete. Cottonseed: Cottonseed production in 2004 totaled a record high 8.24 million tons, up 24 percent from 2003. Sales to oil mills accounted for 55 percent of the disposition. The remaining 45 percent will be used for seed, feed, exports, and various other uses. 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