QID 050090 Prices Received for Cotton Marketings and Cash Purchases

PRICES RECEIVED FOR COTTON MARKETINGS AND CASH PURCHASES BY COOPERATIVES      
			OMB No. 0535-0003 Approval Expires: 5/31/2016 Project Code: 186 QID: 050090 SMetaKey: 1270
				United States Department of Agriculture
				NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE

						USDA/NASS - Texas Southern Plains Region PO Box 70 Austin, TX 78767-0070 Phone: 1-800-626-3142 Fax: 1-855-270-2725 E-mail: [email protected]

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Average prices received by farmers for cotton are needed to compute price indexes, parity prices, and farm income. By supplying the information requested below, you will be helping to accurately estimate prices received by farmers. Information requested in this survey is used to prepare estimates of selected agricultural commodities.

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February 2016

Instructions for Estimating Prices
Report the price and number of bales marketed based on actual pooled cotton sales during the month specified. The price should reflect an f.o.b. warehouse price. Exclude cotton forfeited to CCC. To arrive at an f.o.b. warehouse price, start with the average price received per pound of cotton sold or income for sales of cotton during the month. Then, make the necessary adjustments, if any, listed below.
	ITEMS to be DEDUCTED from reported price:		ITEMS NOT to be DEDUCTED from reported price:
	Handling, processing, transportation, and marketing charges after delivery to the warehouse until sold; Storage expenses; Interest expenses; Losses from hedging; Allowance for weight lost in storage; Compression and load out; Any government payments (i.e., loan deficiency payments); Marketing Loan Gains from redeeming loans at less than loan value (AWP); Income from commodities other than cotton or income derived from manufacture of material; Income or dividends from capital investment.		Transportation costs to the warehouse; Warehouse receiving charges; Producer check-off fees for the Cotton Research and Promotion Assessment Program; Capital retains from cotton marketing’s; Expenses reimbursed by government (i.e., storage and interest); Storage income from private firms or government; Interest income; Income from hedging; Allowance for weight gained in storage; Anticipated end-of-year distributions from cotton marketings.
Note: If current deductions or add-ons are not available, use the average of the previous 3 years projected to the current year.
INSTRUCTIONS for ESTIMATING MARKETINGS Monthly Bales marketed by state of origin should be estimated using each state's percentage of the total cooperative inventory unless actual marketings are available on a continuing basis.

1. Pool Marketings and Cash Purchases of UPLAND Cotton
State of Origin	OFFICE USE (FIPS CODE)	2015 and Earlier Upland Cotton
		Full Month of January Corresponding accounting period may be used
		Bales	Cents Per Pound
Texas	801	811	821	_ _ . _
     	801	811	821	_ _ . _
     	801	811	821	_ _ . _
     	801	811	821	_ _ . _
     	801	811	821	_ _ . _
     	801	811	821	_ _ . _
     	801	811	821	_ _ . _
     	801	811	821	_ _ . _
     	801	811	821	_ _ . _
	801	811	821	_ _ . _
TOTAL ALL STATES		908

2. Pool Marketings and Cash Purchases of AMERICAN PIMA Cotton
State of Origin	OFFICE USE (FIPS CODE)	2015 and Earlier American Pima Cotton
		Full Month of January Corresponding accounting period may be used.
		Bales	Cents Per Pound

Texas	861	871	881	_ _ . _
     	861	871	881	_ _ . _
     	861	871	881	_ _ . _
     	861	871	881	_ _ . _
TOTAL ALL STATES		909

Respondent Name:

9911 Phone: ( )

9910 MM DD YY Date: __ __ __ __ __ __

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION

OFFICE USE ONLY

Response

Respondent

Mode

Enum.

Eval.

R. Unit

Change

Office Use for POID

1-Comp 2-R 3-Inac 4-Office Hold 5-R – Est 6-Inac – Est 7-Off Hold – Est

9901

1-Op/Mgr 2-Sp 3-Acct/Bkpr 4-Partner 9-Oth

9902

1-Mail 2-Tel 3-Face-to-Face 4-CATI 5-Web 6-e-mail 7-Fax 8-CAPI 19-Other

9903

9998

9900

9921

9985

9989 __ __ __ - __ __ __ - __ __ __

001

Optional Use

002

9907

9908

9906

9916

S/E Name