According to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, Mississippi's cotton production in 2009 was 450,000 480-pound bales, down 43% from 2008 production of 683,000 bales.
12.4 million bales, all types, both upland and pima.
The largest producers of cotton, currently (2009), are China and India, with annual production of about 34 million bales and 24 million bales, respectively; most of this production is consumed by their respective textile industries. The largest exporters of raw cotton are the United States.
Texas leads the U.S. in cotton production . In 2000, growers produced over 4 million bales, making over $1 billion to the Texas cotton industry. Texas annually produces about 25% of the entire U.S. crop and plants over 6 million acres! That's over 9,000 square miles of cotton fields.In 2009, Texas produced 4.9 million bales of cotton, far outdoing the next closest state of Georgia at 1.8 million bales.
• Broiler (meat) chicken and soybeans are Mississippi's most valuable agricultural products. • Cotton is grown in the northwest part of the state, and the northeast part grows the majority of the cotton. • Cattle farms are common in all parts of Mississippi except the Mississippi Delta. • Mississippi ranks fourth nationally for the production of rice. The crop was valued at $178 million dollars in 2009.
Mississippi Surge was created in 2009.
0. Texas Tech has played in four Cotton Bowls (1939 vs. Saint Mary's, 1995 vs. Southern California, 2006 vs. Alabama, 2009 vs. Mississippi) and lost each game.
2009/2010 estimates of cotton crop are 3.2 million hectares area, expected production around 12.8 - 13.0 million bales under current crop situation. Area under Bt (GE) and non Bt (upland) is 50/50 percent on national level. Noor Abid Saeed, Deputy Manager T&M, Arysta LifeScience Pakistan. Cell# 0300-6367791
Mississippi's population in 2009 was approximately 2.9 million people.
Mississippi Damned was created on 2009-01-16.
Through the 2009 season, Texas and Mississippi State have met four times (1921, 1991, 1992, 1999) with each team winning twice. Their last meeting was the 1999 Cotton Bowl with Texas winning 38-11.
Prom Night in Mississippi - 2009 is rated/received certificates of: Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario)
The average price for cotton is around two hundred dollars :)