ASB Notice

2011 U.S. Marketing Year Average Price of Upland Cotton Up from 2010

Issued Oct. 11, 2012 by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information, contact Steve Maliszewski at (202) 720 5944 or Steve.Maliszewski@nass.usda.gov.

The U.S. Marketing Year Average Price for 2011 Upland cotton is 88.3 cents per pound, up 6.8 cents from last year. NASS will publish all U.S. and state cotton and cottonseed price information in the October Agricultural Prices report, to be released October 31, 2012. All NASS reports are available online at www.nass.usda.gov.

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