QID 050211 Prices Received by Farmers for Rice - Cooperatives

PRICES RECEIVED BY FARMERS FOR RICE COOPERATIVES      
			OMB No. 0535-0003 Approval Expires: 5/31/2016 Project Code: 188 QID: 050211 SMetaKey: 1269
				United States Department of Agriculture
				NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE

						USDA/NASS - Texas Southern Plains Region PO Box 70 Austin, TX 78767-0070 Phone: 1-800-626-3142 Fax: 1-855-270-2725 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.

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February 2016

INSTRUCTIONS: (Patronage Pools) ●Report the equivalent rough rice quantity of milled rice shipped in item 1. Exclude cash purchases that are milled as cash purchases. These purchases are to be reported in item 3. ●Report rough rice shipped without milling in item 2. ●Exclude return and expenses from processes which materially affect the form of the product such as parboiling or income from sales of items other than rice. In the case of prices reported in Items 1 and 2— Begin with the value of milled or rough rice shipped or sold, then adjust by the following to reflect the price of dry rough rice at first point of sale.

Items to be DEDUCTED from reported price-- ● Handling, processing (milling), transportation, and marketing charges from co-op acquisition until product (milled or rough) is sold ● Interest expenses ● Losses from hedging ● Storage costs ● Government payments (i.e. loan deficiency payments [LDP] and marketing loan gains [MLG]) ● Income or dividends from capital investment

Items NOT TO BE DEDUCTED from reported price-- ● Interest Income ● Gains from hedging ● Storage income ● Capital retains from rice marketings ● Producer check-off fees (if any) ● Transportation costs prior to Cooperative acquisition

	For Entire Month of January
	Length of Grain	Rough Rice Equivalent Quantity Shipped		Average Value 1/ Dollars & Cents per Cwt.
1. Report equivalent rough rice for milled rice shipped during the period--	Long	151	Cwt.	156 $ .___ ___
	Medium	161	Cwt.	166 $ .___ ___
	Short	171	Cwt.	176 $ .___ ___
	All	181	Cwt.	186 $ .___ ___
2. Report rough rice shipped without milling-	Long	251	Cwt.	256 $ .___ ___
	Medium	261	Cwt.	266 $ .___ ___
	Short	271	Cwt.	276 $ .___ ___
	All	281	Cwt.	286 $ .___ ___
1/ Cost factors considered for the computation should be generally comparable to those used for determining pool settlement excluding government payments retained when loans are redeemed at less than original loan value. OVER

INSTRUCTIONS: (Non Patronage Purchases) ●Report cash purchases from growers at first point of sale as dry rough rice before deducting drying and storage charges, or transportation costs prior to Cooperative acquisition. Exclude any LDP or MLG benefit and any payment of storage or transportation earned after point of sale. ●Exclude purchase if not first buyer of record from grower, i.e. purchases from other mills, co-ops or CCC stocks.
	For Entire Month of January
3. Report cash purchases of dry rough rice from farmers- (Include green rice converted to dry weight equivalent.) (Rice purchased through redemption of CCC loans should be valued at the loan redemption rate (World Market Price or loan plus interest whichever is lower) plus any additional payment (premium) to growers.)	Length of Grain	Quantity Shipped		Average Value 2/ Dollars & Cents per Cwt..
	Long	351	Cwt.	356 $ .___ ___
	Medium	361	Cwt.	366 $ .___ ___
	Short	371	Cwt.	376 $ .___ ___
	All	381	Cwt.	386 $ .___ ___
2/ Report total price paid to producers for rough rice at first point of sale as dry rough rice before deducting drying and storage charges, or transportation costs to the first point of sale.

Respondent Name:

9911 Phone: ( )

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

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION

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

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 Use

9907

9908

9906

9916

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