QID - 050204 Prices Received by Farmers for Rice - Private Merchant -

PRICES RECEIVED BY FARMERS for RICE - PRIVATE MERCHANT
			OMB No. 0535-0003 Approval Expires: 3/31/2013 Project Code: 188 QID: 050204 SMetaKey: 2846
				NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE

						Arkansas Field Office 10800 Financial Centre Parkway Suite 110 Little Rock, AR 72211 Phone: 1-800-327-2970 Fax: 1-877-743-6181 E-mail: [email protected]

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The Department of Agriculture collects and publishes information on prices received by farmers for rice. This information is used for estimation of farm income, determination of government program payments, in the computation of the gross national product and for price studies and analysis of returns from various crops.

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 is 0535-0003. The time required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 10 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.

March 2013

INSTRUCTIONS

Please report the following information for rough rice purchased from growers and for which settlement was completed with the grower during the time periods specified on this questionnaire. Do not include agreements made for settlement at a future time. Settlement made at a later date should be included on the survey covering that period.

● Exclude purchases if not the first buyer of record from grower, i.e. purchases from other mills, coops, or CCC stocks.

● Report total price paid to growers at first point of sale as dry rough rice before deducting drying and storage charges, or

transportation costs to the first point of sale. Exclude and LDP or MLG benefit and any payment of storage or

transportation earned after point of sale.

● Report data for all settlements by STATE where grown.

● Rice purchased through redemption of CCC loans should be valued at the loan redemption rate (World Market Price

[WMP] or loan plus interest whichever is lower) plus any additional payment (premium) to growers.

1. During the entire month of February and the first 15 days of March, did you purchase any rough rice from farmers?

0 YES – Continue on back. 0 NO – Thank the respondent and conclude the survey.

2. In what unit were the purchases made?
CWT (1) Bushels (2) Barrels (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .				0226
	During the entire month of February		During the first 15 days of March
Purchase of Rough Rice in Arkansas for--	Quantity Purchased (Include Green Rice converted to dry weight equivalent.)	Total Dollars Paid to farmer for quantity purchased	Quantity Purchased (Include Green Rice converted to dry weight equivalent.)		Total Dollars Paid to farmer for quantity purchased
LONG GRAIN	131	105	231		205
MEDIUM GRAIN	132	115	232		215
SHORT GRAIN	133	125	233		225

	During the entire month of February		During the first 15 days of March
Purchase of Rough Rice in      ____________ for--	Quantity Purchased (Include Green Rice converted to dry weight equivalent.)	Total Dollars Paid to farmer for quantity purchased	Quantity Purchased (Include Green Rice converted to dry weight equivalent.)	Total Dollars Paid to farmer for quantity purchased
LONG GRAIN	131	105	231	205
MEDIUM GRAIN	132	115	232	215
SHORT GRAIN	133	125	233	225

Purchase of Rough Rice in      ____________ for--
LONG GRAIN	131	105	231	205
MEDIUM GRAIN	132	115	232	215
SHORT GRAIN	133	125	233	225

Respondent Name:

9911 Phone: ( )

9910 MM DD YY Date: __ __ __ __ __ __

Response

Respondent

Mode

R Unit

Enum

Eval

Office Use for POID

1-Comp 5-R – Est 2-R 6-Inac – Est 3-Inac 7-Off Hold – Est 4-Office 8-Known Zero Hold

9901

1-Op/Mgr 2-Sp 3-Acct/Bkpr 4-Partner 9-Oth

9902

1-Mail 6-e-mail 2-Tel 7-Fax 3-Face-to-Face 8-CAPI 4-CATI 19-Other 5-Web

9903

921

098

100

789 __ __ __ - __ __ __ - __ __ __

Office Use

001

002

S/E Name

Optional Use

407

408