QID Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils Operation Profile

Animal and Vegetable fats and oils OPERATION PROFILE – JULY 2014
							OMB No. 0535-XXXX Approval Expires: Project Code: QID: SMetaKey:
								United States Department of Agriculture
								NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
							USDA/NASS National Operations Division 9700 Page Avenue, Suite 400 St. Louis, MO 63132-1547 1-888-424-7828 FAX: 1-855-515-1328 Email: [email protected]
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1. Do you expect this firm to produce any vegetable fats or oils in 2014? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^xxx ₁  Yes

₃  No

INCLUDE:  Cottonseed oil – crude or once refined ₂  Don’t Know

• Soybeans oil – crude, once refined, or cooking or salad oil

• Linseed oil– raw and boiled or other than raw and boiled

• Coconut oil – crude or refined

• Corn oil – crude or once refined

• Peanut oil – crude or once refined

• Palm oil – crude or once refined

• Palm kernel oil – crude or once refined

• Sunflower oil– crude or once refined

• Canola oil – crude or once refined

• Vegetable foots – raw and acidulated (100% basis)

• Safflower oil – crude or once refined

• Babassu, oiticica, and other primary fats and oils

2. Do you expect this firm to produce any edible or inedible animal fats in 2014? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^xxx ₁  Yes

₃  No

INCLUDE:  Lard – such as rendered pork fat and lard stearin ₂  Don’t Know

• Tallow – edible (including oleo stock and edible animal stearin)

• Tallow – inedible (including inedible animal stearin

• Grease – yellow

• Grease – other than yellow

• Meat meal, meat and bone meal, and dry rendered tankage

• Poultry fats

• Poultry by-products

• Feather meal

• Blood meal, raw products for pet food, etc.

3. Do you expect this firm to consume any animal or vegetable fats or oils in 2014? . . . . . . . . . . . . ^xxx ₁  Yes

₃  No

INCLUDE:  Cottonseed – once refined ₂  Don’t Know

• Soybeans – once refined or cooking or salad oil

• Linseed – raw and boiled or other than raw and boiled

• Coconut – refined

• Corn – once refined

• Peanut – once refined

• Palm oil –once refined

• Palm kernel –once refined

• Sunflower – once refined

• Canola – once refined

• Vegetable foots – raw and acidulated (100% basis)

• Safflower –once refined

• Baking and frying fats (shortening) – 100% vegetable oil

• Baking and frying fats (shortening) – 100% animal fat or blends with vegetable oil

• Fish oil – excluding cod, liver, and sperm oil; include refined and hydrogenated oil

• Margarine

• Fatty acids

• Glycerin – crude

• Glycerin – refined

4. Do you expect this firm to store any animal or vegetable fats or oils in 2014? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^xxx ₁  Yes

₃  No

INCLUDE:  Cottonseed – crude or once refined ₂  Don’t Know

• Soybeans – crude, once refined, or cooking or salad oil

• Linseed – raw and boiled or other than raw and boiled

• Coconut – crude or refined

• Corn – crude or once refined

• Peanut – crude or once refined

• Palm oil – crude or once refined

• Palm kernel – crude or once refined

• Sunflower – crude or once refined

• Canola – crude or once refined

• Vegetable foots – raw and acidulated (100% basis)

• Safflower – crude or once refined

• Babassu, oiticica, and other primary fats and oils

• Lard

• Baking and frying fats (shortening) – 100% vegetable oil

• Baking and frying fats (shortening) – 100% animal fat or blends with vegetable oil

• Tallow

• Fish oil – excluding cod, liver, and sperm oil; include refined and hydrogenated oil

• Margarine

• Fatty acids

• Glycerin – crude

• Glycerin – refined

[ENUMERATOR NOTE: If Items 1, 2, 3, and 4 are all NO or DON’T KNOW, continue; otherwise go to Item 6]

5. Please provide notes about the status of this operation, the respondent’s contact information, and conclude interview:

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Will this firm produce, consume, or store animal or vegetable fats or oils in more than one location in 2014?

^xxx ₁  Yes – List information on each separate location below ₃  No – Go to Item 8

FIRM NAME MAILING ADDRESS CONTACT PERSON

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. Considering all locations reported in Item 6, how would this firm prefer to report?

xxx

1 Each location individually

2 Combined total for all locations

3 Headquarters reports all locations separately

4 Other combination – Please list which locations you would like combined for reporting purposes:

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Square Feet

xxx

8. What is the total square footage of all of the locations that will be reported for under this

firm? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9. Who will be the primary contact at your warehouse for completing our monthly survey?

Name: ___________________________________________________________________

Position: _________________________________________________________________

Telephone: _______________________________________________________________

Address: _________________________________________________________________

Fax: _____________________________________________________________________

Email: ____________________________________________________________________

10. Who will be the alternate contact at your warehouse for completing our monthly survey?

Name: ___________________________________________________________________

Position: _________________________________________________________________

Telephone: _______________________________________________________________

Address: _________________________________________________________________

Fax: _____________________________________________________________________

Email: ____________________________________________________________________

OFFICE USE

xxx

[ENUMERATOR ACTION: Attempt to collect the prior month’s information using the attached

questionnaire or by accessing the EDR instrument.]

11. Is the overall monthly production reported by this operation higher, lower, or about the same as the average monthly

production during the previous 12 months?

^xxx ₁  Higher ₂  Lower ₃  About the same

Days

xxx

12. How many days after the last day of the reference month can this operation provide

the requested information about that reference month? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

13. Does this firm store fats or oils in a public or private warehouse at another location? ^xxx ₁  Yes ₃  No

COMMENTS:

Respondent Name: _______________________________	9911			9910 MM DD YY
	Phone: (_____)	_______________________		Date: __ __ __ __ __ __

OFFICE USE ONLY
Response		Respondent		Mode		Enum.	Eval.	R. Unit	Change	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	9998	9900	9921	9985	9989 __ __ __ - __ __ __ - __ __ __
										Optional/NOC Use
										9907	9908		9906	9916
S/E Name