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Big US Cotton Crop Gets Bigger in Latest USDA Crop Production Report

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:58:18 CST

Big US Cotton Crop Gets Bigger in Latest USDA Crop Production Report The December USDA Crop Production Report focused on the "getting larger" US Cotton Crop, which was called two percent larger than the November estimates from USDA. The reason for the increase from November to December was primarily because of the seven percent increase in cotton yields in Texas, from 625 pouinds of lint per acre to 670 pounds of lint estimated in the December report. That allowed the total production in Texas to increase five hundred thousand bales from the November report to a total of 7.4 million bales of cotton production in Texas for 2016, forty six percent of the total US Cotton Crop.


Oklahoma Upland Cotton production totaled 565 thousand bales, 51 percent higher than 2015- unchanged from the November estimatess of USDA. Yield averaged 952 pounds per acre, compared with 876 pounds last year. Acreage harvested, at 285 thousand acres, is up 39 percent from last year.


According to the OSU Cotton website, the predicted yield for 2016 in Oklahoma will be another record- 2015 was the previous record cotton yield in Oklahoma.


Meanwhile, Plains Cotton Growers report that Texas High Plains cotton growers remain on pace to produce their largest
crop since 2010, based on the USDA December report.


Estimates for the region now are at 4,670,000 bales, up 295,000 bales from the November NASS report. The Northern High Plains almost will double their production from 2015 to 2016 from 731,500 bales to surpassing the million-bale mark in 2016 at 1,310,000, and the Southern High Plains is expected to produce 3,360,000 bales.


Yield per acre for the Northern High Plains is 844 pounds, and 604 for the Southern High Plains. Harvested acres remain at 745,000 in the NHP and 2,670,000 in the SHP. The abandonment rate still stands at 8.3 percent.   


The nationwide estimate for upland cotton increased to 16 million bales, up 400,000 from an estimated 15.6 million in the November report and up 28 percent from 2015.


You can review the entire USDA December Crop Production Report by clicking here.


   


 

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