Daily Cotton Quality Summary For Cotton Classed on Friday, April 27, 2018

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1 Cotton and Tobacco Program 3275 Appling Road, Memphis, TN Daily Cotton Quality Summary For Cotton Classed on Friday, April 27, 2018 (901) Volume 13, No Apr-18 Upland Classing Office Number Predominate [ Average ] [-----Percent----] Bales Color Leaf Staple Mike Strength Uniformity Trash Bark Grass Abilene 6, % 0.00% Corpus Christi * * * * * * * * * * Dumas Florence Lamesa Lubbock * * * * * * * * * * Macon * * * * * * * * * * Memphis Rayville Visalia United States 7, % 0.00% American Pima Classing Office Number Predominate [ Average ] [-----Percent----] Bales Color Leaf Staple Mike Strength Uniformity Trash Bark Grass Visalia

2 Florence 1,350, % 0.2% Macon 2,817, % 0.1% 19-Apr-18 * * * * * * * * * * 23-Apr-18 * * * * * * * * * * 27-Apr-18 * * * * * * * * * *

3 Dumas NUMBER Pred. [ AVERAGE ] [---Percent---] 1,298, % 0.1% Memphis NUMBER Pred. [ AVERAGE ] [---Percent---] 2,760, % 0.1% Rayville NUMBER Pred. [ AVERAGE ] [---Percent---] 431, % 0.2%

4 Abilene 45, % 0.0% 49, % 0.0% 30, % 0.0% 33, % 0.0% 2,096, % 0.0% 19-Apr-18 6, % 0.00% 20-Apr-18 7, % 0.00% 23-Apr-18 5, % 0.00% 24-Apr-18 6, % 0.00% 25-Apr-18 7, % 0.00% 26-Apr-18 6, % 0.03% 27-Apr-18 6, % 0.00% Corpus Christi 1, % 0.0% 1, % 0.0% 1, % 0.0% 2,338, % 0.3% 19-Apr-18 * * * * * * * * * * 20-Apr-18 * * * * * * * * * * 27-Apr-18 * * * * * * * * * * Lamesa NUMBER Pred. [ AVERAGE ] [---Percent---] 1,704, % 0.0% 25-Apr-18 * * * * * * * * * * Lubbock 30, % 0.1% 25, % 0.2% 30, % 0.1% 20, % 0.0% 4,059, % 0.0% 19-Apr-18 * * * * * * * * * * 20-Apr-18 8, % 0.00% 23-Apr-18 4, % 0.00% 24-Apr-18 3, % 0.00% 25-Apr-18 * * * * * * * * * * 26-Apr-18 3, % 0.05% 27-Apr-18 * * * * * * * * * *

5 Visalia NUMBER Pred. [ AVERAGE ] [---Percent---] # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 745, % 0.0% United States NUMBER Pred. [ AVERAGE ] [---Percent---] 78, % 0.0% 77, % 0.1% 62, % 0.0% 53, % 0.0% 19,602, % 0.1% 19-Apr-18 6, % 0.00% 20-Apr-18 16, % 0.00% 23-Apr-18 10, % 0.00% 24-Apr-18 10, % 0.00% 25-Apr-18 7, % 0.00% 26-Apr-18 10, % 0.04% 27-Apr-18 7, % 0.00%

6 American Pima NUMBER Pred. [ AVERAGE ] [---Percent---] Visalia # # # # # # # # # # 676, % 0.1% 19-Apr Apr Apr Apr Apr Apr Apr-18

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