05/12/2006 07:42AM
Description:This full-text file presents the annual data on cotton production, including running bales ginned, 480-pound bales produced, average bale weight, and number of active cotton gins by state and county for each survey period. This is a supplement to Cotton Ginnings.
Cotton
05/05/2006 04:37PM
Situation and Outlook
Korea’s total cotton imports for marketing year (MY) 2006/07 are forecast at 285,638 metric tons (mt), a 13,601-mt increase from MY 2005/06. The positive import sediment can be attributed to 118,000 new spindles expected to come on-line in January 2007 providing a boost to
05/03/2006 06:35AM
The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) provides the world’s premiere futures and options markets for several internationally traded agricultural commodities: cocoa, coffee, cotton, frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) and sugar. For well over a century, representatives of these primary commodity industries
05/03/2006 06:26AM
Photo courtesy of the Clemson University Entomology Dept.
Boll weevil getting ready to feed - notice the long snout
The adult weevils have a snout and are about one-fourth inch long. They may be reddish-brown, gray, or almost black. A distinguishing feature is the presence of
05/02/2006 07:35PM
Cotton was one of the first major agricultural commodities grown in the United States. As the industry grew, the lack of uniform quality factors created increasing problems for the industry's national and international markets.
In 1907, an international group of cotton industry representatives met
05/02/2006 07:29PM
The objective of the Grading and Classing program for cotton is to facilitate interstate and foreign commerce in cotton by providing official quality determinations that aid in marketing. AMS accomplishes this goal by inspecting, identifying, and certifying that product quality is in accordance with
05/02/2006 06:56PM
What state grows the most cotton?Texas, which annually grows about 4.5 million bales of cotton, is the leading cotton-producing state.
What country grows the most cotton?Historically, China is the largest grower . The Chinese produced approximately 20 million bales of cotton in 2000. The U.S. is second