Form 060049-ND Potato

	NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE	POTATO ACREAGE & DISPOSITION June 2006				Form Approved O.M.B Number 0535-0002 Approval Expires 12/31/2007 Project Code 195 QID 060049
USDA, NASS, North Dakota Field Office P.O. Box 3166 Fargo, ND 58108-3166 1-800-626-3134 Fax: 701-239-5613 E-mail: nass-nd@nass.usda.gov				Dear Potato Grower: WE NEED YOUR HELP to estimate potato acreage and disposition in North Dakota. Please complete the following questions dealing with this year’s acreage and disposition of the 2005 crop. Response is voluntary and not required by law. However, your response is important for producing accurate results. All individual answers will be kept strictly confidential. Thank you for your cooperation.
Please make corrections in name, address and zip code, if necessary.				Sincerely, David Knopf Director

Is your operation known by another name than printed above?

NO YES – Explain __________________________________________________________________________

2006 ACREAGE Please report potato acreage on all land you operate. Include potato land rented from others.

1. a. How many TOTAL acres of potatoes have you planted or	100
do you expect to plant in 2006?..........................................................................................	Acres
	113
b. How many of the planted acres are: Reds and Blues?..........................................	Acres
	114
Whites and Yellows?....................................	Acres
	115
Russets?......................................................	Acres
2. a. How many hundredweight of seed potatoes	116
were used to plant this year’s crop?....................................................................................	Cwt
	117
b. How much of the total seed for planting, reported in 2a, was purchased?.........................	Cwt

(OVER)

DISPOSITION OF 2005 CROP (Please report for the farm or farms you operate.)

							200
1. Total acres of potatoes HARVESTED in 2005……………………………………………………							Acres
							201
2. Quantity of potatoes harvested from the (Item 1) acres………………………………………….							Cwt
							202
3. Quantity sold through a pool type firm……………………………………………………………..							Cwt
							203
4. Quantity excluding pooled potatoes (Subtract line 3 from line 2)……………………………….							Cwt
5. Of the potatoes in Item 4, what quantity was and will be: (EXCLUDE POOLED POTATOES)
					210		
a. Lost through shrinkage, decay and dumping……………………					Cwt
					216		
b. Sold for all purposes………………………………………………..					Cwt
Sales by type:			211
(1) Table Stock……………………………………………...			Cwt
			212
(2) Seed……………………………………………………...			Cwt
			213
(3) Processing (excluding starch)…………………………			Cwt
			214
(4) Processing for starch…………………………………..			Cwt
			215
(5) Livestock feed…………………………………………..			Cwt
c. Used on this farm for human food, planting
Your 2006 crop or livestock feed.					217		
(DO NOT INCLUDE PURCHASED POTATOES)………………					Cwt
					218		=
d. TOTAL (Sum of 5a, b, c should equal Item 4 above)…………..					Cwt

6. Of the total potatoes sold (Item 5b), what quantity was and will be sold during:

Month	Cwt	Month	Cwt
August 2005	252	February 2006	258
September	253	March	259
October	254	April	260
November	255	May	261
December	256	June	262
January 2006	257	After July 1	263
TOTAL SOLD AND TO BE SOLD – August 1, 2005 – July 30, 2006 (Sum should equal total sales reported in Item 5b)……………………………………………			264
7. What is the total potato capacity of this operation? (include bins rented and owned, exclude bins rented to others)………………………………………………………………………….			265
			Cwt

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP

Reported by: ______________________________________________________ Date: _______________________________________

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