QID Prices Received by Farmers for Raw Sugar

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Project 198 QID			OMB No. 0535-0003 Approval Expires 12/31/2009
	PRICES RECEIVED BY PROCESSORS FOR RAW SUGAR November 1, 2009							NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
						Louisiana Field Office 5825 Florida Blvd. Room 1179 Baton Rouge, LA 70806-4248 Phone: 1-800-256-4485 Fax: 1-888-922-0744 Email: [email protected]
Please make corrections to name, address and Zip Code, if necessary.					In preparing final estimates of sugar and molasses production for the 2008 season, we are asking all sugar factory operators to give the information requested below. Response to this survey is voluntary and not required by law. However, cooperation is very important in order to estimate accurately in Louisiana. Your reply will be held confidential and combined with those from other factories in making estimates for Louisiana. Please mail or fax by November 24, 2009.

1. Total quantity of all actual (commercial value) SUGAR marketed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Pounds	211
a. Polarization of this sugar marketed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Degrees	212

2. Marketing period covered by quantity reported Question1.

From:_______________ Through:_______________

3. Gross proceeds from sugar marketed in Question 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dollars & Cents

213

4. Average price per pound (Question 3 divided by Question 1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cents

214

5. Average net price received for molasses per gallon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cents

215

6. Total quantity of molasses marketed (gallons). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gallons

216

7. Would you like to receive a free copy of the results of this survey in the mail? (The survey results will also be available on the Internet at http://www.nass.usda.gov.)	Yes = 1	099

REPORTED BY:_________________________	PHONE: ( )____________________________	DATE:___________________________________

OFFICE USE

						9910 MM DD YY __ __ __ __ __ __
Response	Respondent	Mode	Enum.	Eval.	Office Use for POID	Optional Use
9901	9902	9903	098	100	789 __ __ __ - __ __ __ - __ __ __	407	408
S/E Name

According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. The valid OMB control number for this information collection is 0535-0003. The time required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 10 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information.