Sept 9 (Reuters) - Cotton futures fell on Friday as a
stronger dollar offset positive exports sales data and traders
looked ahead to the release of a U.S. government world
agriculture supply and demand (WASDE) report on Monday.

Weekly export sales data from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) showed net upland sales totaled 344,500
running bales of cotton for the week ended Sept. 1, compared
with 309,200 running bales in the prior week.

"We had excellent exports, but we are ignoring those because
we're watching the U.S. dollar climb," said Keith Brown,
principal at cotton brokers Keith Brown and Co in Moultrie,
Georgia.

The dollar rose on Friday as remarks by Federal Reserve
policymakers helped boost investor expectations of a near-term
increase in U.S. interest rates.

* The December cotton contract on ICE Futures U.S.
settled down 0.21 cent, or 0.30 percent, at 69.08 cents per lb.
It traded within a range of 68.25 and 69.38 cents a lb.
* The dollar index was up 0.43 percent. The Thomson
Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index, which tracks 19
commodities, was down 1.66 percent.
* The second month December cotton contract on ICE Futures
U.S. registered a rise of 1.9 percent this week.

(Reporting by Nithin Prasad and Arpan Varghese in Bengaluru;
Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)