In 1999, 3,680,000 acres were harvested, which was up 519,000 acres from the prior year. The yield was 668 pounds per acre, up thirty-four pounds from 1998 but was still low when compared to the five-year average of 717 pounds.

Transgenic varieties are very popular with the three top varieties being transgenic. Stoneville BXN 47 and D&PL NuCOTN 33B being the most common varieties planted. In Tennessee, forty-one percent of the acreage was planted to Paymaster 1220 BG/RR. In Louisiana, thirty-six percent and in Mississippi twenty-nine percent of the acreage was planted to NuCOTN 33B. Stoneville BXN 47 had forty-one percent of the acres in Arkansas and in Missouri thirty percent.