QID 000112 Vegetables for Processing - California

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Project Code 138 QID 000112 11/06		OMB No. 0535-0037: Approval Expires 10/31/2009
	VEGETABLES FOR PROCESSING Acreage, Production, and Value Per Unit November 2008				NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
				California Field Office P.O. Box 1258 Sacramento, CA 95812 Phone: 1-800-851-1127 Fax: 1-888-478-5637 E-mail: [email protected]
California splits their prices into Contract and Open Market purchases. Please make corrections to name, address, and Zip Code, if necessary. PLEASE RETURN BY NOVEMBER 21, 2008.			Dear Reporter: The information requested in this survey is needed to prepare a report on the 2008 processed vegetable crops. Response is voluntary and not required by law. However, your report is needed to make the estimates as accurate as possible. Your individual report is confidential and used only with other reports for statistical purposes. Please complete and return this report by November 21 in the enclosed postage-paid return envelope. If you have any questions, please contact Mark Johnson at 1-800-851-1127, Ext.132. Thanks for your cooperation.

ACREAGE, PRODUCTION, AND VALUE PER UNIT FOR 2008 (Please review instructions on Page 4)
Report Separately for Each State Where Grown	Contracted or Grown by Your Firm in 2008			Open-market Purchases in 2008	Average Value per Ton in 2008 at Processing Plant Door
	Acreage		Tonnage
	Planted	Harvested	Pay-weight Received	Pay-weight Received	Contract Tonnage	Open-Market Purchases
	Acres		Tons		Dollars
ARTICHOKES: State:
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ASPARAGUS FOR CANNING: State:
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ASPARAGUS FOR FREEZING: State:
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BEANS, LIMA FOR CANNING: State:
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BEANS, BABY LIMA FOR FREEZING: State:
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BEANS, LIMA, FORDHOOKS FOR FREEZING: State:
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BEANS, SNAP FOR CANNING: (Soups and other heat-processed products) State:
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BEANS, SNAP FOR FREEZING: (Wax and green beans of string and stringless varieties) State:
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BEETS FOR CANNING: State:
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BROCCOLI: State:
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CARROTS: State:
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CAULIFLOWER: State:
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CELERY: State:
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CORN, SWEET FOR CANNING: (Tons are in-husk) State:
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CORN, SWEET FOR FREEZING: State:
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GARLIC: State:
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ONIONS, DRY: (Exclude fresh "sweet" dry onions, green onions, shallots, etc. Include dehydrator onions.) State:
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PEAS, GREEN FOR CANNING: State:
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PEAS, GREENS FOR FREEZING: State:
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PEPPERS, BELL State:
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PEPPERS, CHILI: (All peppers excluding bell peppers. Report tonnage on a fresh basis.) State:
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POTATOES, SWEET: State:
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PUMPKINS: State:
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SPINACH FOR CANNING: State:
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SPINACH FOR FREEZING: State:
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SQUASH, ALL: (including hard and soft shelled) State:
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Reported by:		Date:		Phone:	«PHONE»
E-mail:	«EMAIL»			Fax:	«PHONEFAX»

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DEFINITIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR REPORTING

1. Report Quantity Received and Value Per Unit on a Pay-Weight Basis: The term "pay-weight" refers to the quantity of the product delivered and paid for at the rate (or rates) specified in contracts or purchase agreements. Culls and rejects received, but are considered to be of no value (including tonnage for which the grower received a nominal amount, such as $1.00 a ton in lieu of the return of dockage), should not be included in this report. Processors who establish tolerance for culls and rejects should report the tonnage, which was paid for at the contract rate and should deduct only the dockage for culls and rejects in excess of the prescribed tolerance.

2. Value Per Unit: Value per unit is defined as "all payments to growers plus the costs of materials and services provided to get the raw commodity to the plant receiving door."

3. Materials and Services Furnished by Processors: Include costs of the following materials and services furnished without charge to growers and in excess of grower charges:

(a) Preparation, planting and cultivating, including depreciation and repair of equipment

(b) Seeds or plant costs not deducted, including distribution

(c) Weed, insect, or disease control, including survey, equipment, application, and materials

(d) Harvesting costs, including cost of operation, depreciation, repair, moving equipment, and labor procurement

(e) Delivery cost to the processing plant door, including payment to hired truckers, cost of company trucks, and grower

hauling allowances

(f) Container cost, including upkeep, losses, storage, and transportation

(g) Field receiving station cost if located off plant premises (receiving, weighing, loading, etc.)

(h) Passed acreage if paid for

(i) Inspection and grading costs (Include only if used in purchase of raw product.)

(j) Icing and hydro cooling prior to delivery to plant

(k) Association service fees if not deducted from grower payment

(l) Other costs to processing plant door

Do not include brokerage, cost of field personnel, or other buying expenses.

4. Reports by Cooperatives: For cooperatives, the average value per unit reported should reflect total payments to growers plus other costs in Item 3 above for the quantity delivered as defined in Item 1 above. Do not include dividends paid growers, which are based on capital stock ownership. If all payments have not been made to growers, please estimate the average total payments to growers in arriving at per unit value as defined in Item 2 above. Label your estimated average value per unit "Estimate," and indicate the date when final figures should be available. We will write you at that time for your final average value per unit.

5. If harvest has not been completed, please estimate the acreage that will be harvested and the total tonnage that will be received.

6. For each crop processed, please designate the States in which the crop was grown.

7. Include all tonnage bought from growers even if some was sold to other processors. Do not include tonnage bought from other processors.

8. For crops not processed by your firm during the year, please write "NONE" in areas provided for reporting these crops.