Pre-Survey Handout and Thank you letter

Thank you for cooperating on the 2011 Objective Yield Survey.

You can obtain reports which use Objective Yield Survey data on the Internet at:

www.nass.usda.gov

The dates of these reports and the crops covered are as follows:

May 11, 2011	Crop Production	Wheat (Winter)
June 9, 2011	Crop Production	Wheat (Winter)
July 12, 2011	Crop Production	Wheat (Winter)
August 11, 2011	Crop Production	Wheat (Winter), Corn, Cotton, and Soybeans
September 12, 2011	Crop Production	Corn, Cotton, and Soybeans
September 30, 2011	Small Grains Annual	Wheat (Winter)
October 12, 2011	Crop Production	Corn, Cotton, and Soybeans
November 9, 2011	Crop Production	Corn, Cotton, Soybeans, and Potatoes
December 9, 2011	Crop Production	Cotton and Potatoes
December 15, 2011	Potato Stocks	Potatoes
January 11, 2012*	Crop Production Annual	Corn, Cotton, and Soybeans

*Tentative

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 0535-0088. The time required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 15-25 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.

Information requested in this survey is used to prepare estimates of selected agricultural commodities. Under Title 7 of the U.S. Code and CIPSEA (Public Law 107-347), facts about your operation are kept confidential and used only for statistical purposes in combination with similar reports from other producers. Response is voluntary.