This report contains the annual cotton price statistics, including summaries of average prices received by farmers, and spot cotton transactions. Also included are season average prices and spot cotton differences by market areas.

This report covers South Carolina fertilizer prices. Prices are listed by fertilizer and include range and average prices. Also included are fuel and feed prices as well as a price trend analysis.

An announcement that a PDF copy of this report has been prepared and placed in the USDA AMS report repository. The email message is formatted in ASCII text and contains a URL for the PDF formated report. This is an overview of the weeks cotton market compared to the previous week and the corresponding week the previous year. It includes the current value of the Adjusted World Price (AWP), the Loan Deficiency Payment (LDP)(or Marketing Loan Gain), the Coarse Count Adjustment, the Upland User Marketing Certificate Rate (Step 2), and the Extra Long Staple (ELS) Step 2 Competitiveness Payment; a report of Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) sales of Upland and Pima cotton forfeited to the CCC loan; supply, demand, offerings, prices, trading activity for the seven spot markets (Southeast, North Delta, South Delta, East Texas-Oklahoma, West Texas, Desert Southwest, and San Joaquin Valley), a textile mill report, stocks, forward contracting, prices received by producers, certificated stocks, production, and consumption; and reports and information from the Bureau of the Census, the National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS), the Farm Service Agency (FSA), the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), and the Economic Research Service (ERS).

Season to Date Quality Summary by Office

This report covers U.S. cotton quality. Upland cotton and American Pima cotton are categorized on a national and state basis by color, leaf, and staple. Other methods of categorization for cotton include by mike and fiber strength and by uniformity and trash.

Season To Date Quality Summary by State

Season To Date Quality Summary by Region

Forward Contracting Report

This is a monthly report that is part of the Current Agricultural Industrial Reports (CAIR) program. The report provides monthly and annual totals for extra long staple cotton and manmade fibers consumption, as well as ending stocks and monthly spindle activity on the U.S. cotton system.

This report contains the annual cotton price statistics, including summaries of average prices received by farmers, and spot cotton transactions. Also included are season average prices and spot cotton differences by market areas.

CSV monthly cotton price data file containing the daily prices for the base quality (color 41, leaf 4, staple 34, mike 35-37 and 43-49, strength 27.0 - 28.9 and uniformity 81.0 - 81.9).

This file contains the number of running bales ginned to date for all cotton and American-Pima cotton, by state; county ginnings released with mid-month state ginnings; March report also includes 480-lb. bales ginned and average bale weight by state.

Monthly report on crop acreage, yield and production in major countries worldwide. Sources include reporting from FASs worldwide offices, official statistics of foreign governments, and analysis of economic data and satellite imagery. The report reflects official USDA estimates released in the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report.

This monthly report includes data on U.S. and global trade, production, consumption and stocks, as well as analysis of developments affecting world trade in cotton.

This report covers the Pacific Northwest feedstuffs market. Offers and market analysis are presented for various feedstuffs. Also included are wholesale feedstuff prices and basis delivered to the Northwest Coast.

Examines the latest USDA cotton projections for the production, supply, demand, and global ending stocks in the United States as well as in major exporters and importers of cotton and wool. Also includes tabular data on raw fiber and textile imports, exports, and prices.

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Data
Tables from the Cotton and Wool Yearbook are available at https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/cotton-wool-and-textile-data/cotton-and-wool-yearbook/
They contain historical information on production, use, prices, imports, and exports of cotton and wool.

Tables containing annual raw-fiber equivalents of U.S. textile trade data are available at https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/cotton-wool-and-textile-data/raw-fiber-equivalents-of-us-textile-trade-data/

Related Websites
Cotton and Wool Outlook https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/commodity-outlook/ers-outlook-reports-and-data/
WASDE https://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/index.htm
Cotton and Wool Topics http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/cotton-wool/

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This data is published weekly during the harvest season (generally August through March). It provides weekly and season-to-date data. It is offered in two formats, by classing office and by state. Data includes the number of bales classed; the percentage tenderable; the percentage distributions of color, staple, leaf, micronaire, strength, uniformity, extraneous matter, and trash; and quality averages, where applicable. Includes both week and season-to-date data for both Upland and Pima cotton.

Weekly and Season to date Cotton Quality Statistics for the Rayville, LA Classing Office

Weekly and Season to date Cotton Quality Statistics for the Corpus Christi, TX Classing Office.

This data is published weekly during the harvest season (generally August through March). It provides weekly and season-to-date data. It is offered in two formats, by classing office and by state. Data includes the number of bales classed; the percentage distributions of color, staple, leaf, micronaire, strength, uniformity, extraneous matter, and trash; and quality averages, where applicable. Includes both week and season-to-date data for both Upland and Pima cotton.