December Crop Production and Ginning Reports

Texas is expected to produce 8 million bales of Upland cotton in 2021 according to the December Crop Production report from USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service. U.S. Upland production was projected slightly higher at 17.91 million bales.

The Texas figure is down 100,000 bales from the previous month’s forecast. The downward adjustment to the Texas crop, spurred by a 10 pound per acre decrease in expected yield from the previous month, places the expected yield at 731 pounds per harvested acre.

Also released Thursday was the USDA Cotton Ginnings report which indicates Texas had ginned some 4.22 million running bales through December 1, just over half of the State’s projected production amount.