QID 090285 Dairy Product Prices Butter

Project 934 QID 090285			OMB No.0535-0020 Approval Expires 3/31/2012
	DAIRY PRODUCT PRICES BUTTER Week Ending Saturday______________					NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
	Report by noon on Wednesday unless a Federal Holiday falls on Tuesday or Wednesday. In this case, NASS will contact you by email or telephone concerning the report deadline.				National Field Office U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rm 5030, South Building 1400 Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, DC 20250-2000 Phone: 1-800-727-9540 Fax: 202-690-2090 Email: [email protected]
Please make corrections to name, address and Zip Code, if necessary.				USDA NASS collects weekly information on butter sales and prices to be published in the Dairy Products Prices Release. The information you provide is important to establish U.S. butter prices used in setting minimum class prices under the Federal milk order program. An accurate response to this survey is mandatory and subject to verification by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) under Public Law No. 106-532. This law specifically protects the confidentiality of your report from public disclosure except as directed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture or the U.S. Attorney General for enforcement purposes to ensure compliance with the Dairy Product Mandatory Reporting Program.

Report:

• Salted butter (80% butterfat), fresh or storage, meeting USDA Grade AA standards.

• Price and quantity for butter in 25 kilogram and 68 pound boxes.

• Price as either f.o.b. plant if the product is “shipped out” from a plant or f.o.b. storage facility if the product is “shipped out” from a storage facility.

• Complete transactions, i.e. butter is “shipped out” and title transfer occurs.

Do Not Deduct:

• Brokerage fees paid by the manufacturer.

• Clearing charges paid by the manufacturer.

Exclude:

• Forward pricing sales: sales in which the selling price is established (and not adjusted) 30 or more days before the transaction is completed.

• Intra-company sales of butter.

• Re-sales of purchased butter.

• Butter certified as organic by a USDA-accredited certifying agent.

• Sales of butter produced under faith-based close supervision and marketed at a higher price than the manufacturer’s wholesale market price for the basic commodity (for example, kosher butter produced with a rabbi on site who is actively involved in supervision of the

production process).

• Sales under the Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) or other premium assisted sales (example: export assistance sales through the Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) program).

Records:

• Each person required to report information on this survey shall maintain, and make available to the US Secretary of Agriculture office on request, original contracts, agreements, receipts, and other records associated with the sale of qualified dairy products during the two-year period beginning on the date of the creation of the records.

Section 1 – Butter Sales
For the Week Ending Saturday ________________________
1. Plant Location	Pounds of Butter		Total Dollars OR Dollars / lb.
	Rounded to the Nearest Pound		Rounded to the Nearest Dollar	Rounded to the Nearest Hundredeth of a Cent
	211	lb.	221 $	231 $	. __ __ __ __
	212	lb.	222 $	232 $	. __ __ __ __
	213	lb.	223 $	233 $	. __ __ __ __

Section 2 – Other Information			Code
1. Do you understand the instructions and requirements of this questionnaire?.. . . . . . . .	Yes = 1	No = 3	2693
If no, contact NASS representative immediately to discuss the Dairy Product Prices reporting specifications.
DO NOT SUBMIT the report until after speaking with NASS representative.
Section 3 – General Comments (If necessary, attach additional comment sheets)
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Respondent’s Name:

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Phone Number:

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OFFICE USE

Response	Respondent	Mode	Enum.	Eval.	Office Use for POID	Optional Use
9901	9902	9903	098	100	789 __ __ __ - __ __ __ - __ __ __	407	408
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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 is 0535-0020. The time required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 20 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.