QID 200007 Fruit Inquiry - CO

Project 134 QID 200007			OMB No. 0535-0039 Approval Expires 01/31/2010
	FRUIT INQUIRY 2008 CROPS					NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
					Colorado Field Office 645 Parfet St, Room W-201 Lakewood, CO 80215-0969 Phone: 303-236-2300 Fax: 1-800-643-6885 Email: [email protected]

Your help is needed in supplying information on the progress, development and price of fruit crops in Colorado. Response to this survey is voluntary and not required by law. However, cooperation is very important in order to accurately estimate Colorado’s fruit production. Please complete and return this report in the enclosed postage paid envelope. Your individual report is confidential and used only with other reports for statistical purposes. Thank you for your cooperation.

Please report for each fruit crop you produced on the orchards you operated in 2008.

SECTION I: APPLES

If you did not produce any apples in 2008, skip to Section II on the next page.

1. What was this year’s production as a percent of a full crop of apples? (Let 100 percent represent a full crop you would expect if there were no damage from unfavorable weather, insects, diseases, etc.)………………………………..		Percent
		601
	42 LB. Bushels OR Pounds
2. What is the quantity of apples harvested and to be harvested this year…..………………………………………………………………………………...		602
3. What is the estimate of mature apples not harvested (because of scarcity of labor, low price, etc.)?…………………………		603

4. What is the quantity sold to date and average price received for--

	42 LB. Bushels OR Pounds
Apples Sold For:	Bushels Sold	Dollars Per Bushel	Pounds Sold	Cents Per Pound
Fresh Market: Bulk			604	605
Packed			606	607
Local Sales			608	609
Processing:			610	611

Please continue on the next page

SECTION II: PEACHES

If you did not produce any Peaches in 2008, skip to Section III on the next page.

	Quantity
Harvested Production:	Bushels OR Pounds
1. Quantity of peaches harvested for all purposes during 2008? (Including those harvested but not used.)		120
Disposition:
2. Sales: Report the quantity sold and price per unit for each of the following:	Bushels OR Pounds		Price Per Unit
a. F.O.B. sales (grower packed or packed by commercial packer)		121	122
b. Bulk sales to commercial packer or trucker		123	124
c. Local sales (direct to consumer)		125	126
d. Bulk sales to processors (for canning, freezing, juice, etc.)		127	128
3. Other uses:
a. Farm use or given away		129
b. Other disposal (cullage, dumped, etc.)		130
Unharvested Production:
4. Quantity not harvested because of weather, insect or disease damage, labor shortages, low prices or other economic reasons?		131

Peach Acres and Tree Numbers:

	Acres		Trees
5. Total number of peach acres/trees under your control?....................................Number	132		133
6. How many of the above acres/trees are of bearing age?...................................Number	134		135

NOTE: If there is a difference in the number of trees between 2008 and 2007, please explain the increase

or decrease (for example: taking over another orchard, sold part or all of orchard, trees added or removed, etc.).

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SECTION III: PEARS

If you did not produce any Pears in 2008, skip to Section IV on the next page.

	Quantity
Harvested Production:	Bushels or Pounds
1. Quantity of pears harvested for all purposes during 2008		180
2. Average weight per bushel		200
Disposition:
3. Sales: Report quantity sold and price per Unit for each of the following:	Bushels or Pounds		Price Per Unit
a .FOB sales (grower packed or packed by commercial packer)		181	182
b. Bulk sales to commercial packers or truckers		183	184
c. Local sales (direct to consumer)		185	186
d. Bulk sales to processors (for canning, freezing, juice, etc.)		187	188
4. Other Uses:
a. Farm use or given away		189
b. Other disposal (cullage, dumped, etc).		190
Unharvested Production:
5. Quantity not harvested because of weather, insect or disease damage, labor shortages, low prices or other economic reasons?		191

Pear Acres & Tree Numbers:	Acres		Trees
6. Total number of pear acres/trees under your control Number	192		193
7. How many of the above acres/trees are of bearing age? Number	194		195

NOTE: If there is a difference in the number of trees between 2008 and 2007, please explain the increase

or decrease (for example: taking over another orchard, sold part or all of orchard, trees added or removed, etc.).

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Office Use

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SECTION IV: CONCLUSION

Thank you for your cooperation on this survey.

Survey results will be available on the Internet at http://www.nass.usda.gov/co in January 2009.

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Date:

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	Response			Respondent		Mode			Enum.	Eval.
	1-Comp 2-R 3-Inac 4-Office Hold	5-R – Est 6-Inac – Est 7-Off Hold – Est 8-Known Zero	9901	1-Op/Mgr 2-Sp 3-Acct/Bkpr 4-Partner 9-Oth	9902	1-Mail 2-Tel 3-Face-to-Face 4-CATI 5-Web	6-e-mail 7-Fax 8-CAPI 19-Other	9903	098	100
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