QID Banana Grower Inquiry

BANANA GROWER INQUIRY

			OMB No. 0535-0039 Approval Expires: 6/30/2013 Project Code: xxx QID: xxxxxx SMetaKey: xxxx
				NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE

						U.S. Department of Agriculture NOC Division 9700 Page Avenue, Suite 400 St. Louis, MO 63132-1547 Phone: 1-888-424-7828 FAX: 314-595-9990 [email protected]
Please make corrections to name, address and ZIP Code, if necessary. 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. 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 0535-0039. The time required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 30 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.

Please provide your best estimate to include the remaining weeks of 2013 in completing the table below.

Banana variety	Total acreage 2013	Harvested acreage 2013	Fresh sales 2013	Average fresh farm price 1
22 Cavendish 2	1 acres	2 acres	4 pounds	5 $ cents/lb
23 Hawaii Apple 3	1 acres	2 acres	4 pounds	5 $ cents/lb
24 Other	1 acres	2 acres	4 pounds	5 $ cents/lb

¹ Farm price should exclude commission and freight cost.

² Cavendish includes Chinese, Williams, Valery (Robusta, Taiwan, North Banana, Tall Mons Mari, and Grand Nain).

³ Hawaii Apple includes Dwarf Hawaii Apple and Apple bananas, formerly called Brazilian.

Banana comments: (Please tell us about weather, pests, marketing, etc. which may have affected your banana

output for the year.)

Survey Results: To receive the complete results of this survey on the release date, go to http://www.nass.usda.gov/results

Would you rather have a brief summary mailed to you at a later date?

Yes = 1 No = 3

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Respondent Name:	9911 Phone:	9910 MM DD YY Date:

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Response		Respondent		Mode		Enum.	Eval.	Change 785		Office Use for POID
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	785		789 __ __ __ - __ __ __ - __ __ __
							R. Unit			Optional Use
							921			407	408		9906	9916
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