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CATTLE ON FEED INQUIRY - July 1, 2018
							OMB No. 0535-0213 Approval Expires: 6/30/2017 Project Code: 363 Version 19
								United States Department of Agriculture
			Iowa Operations with less than 1,000 head.					NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
							USDA/NASS - Iowa Upper Midwest Region 210 Walnut St., #833 Des Moines, IA 50309 Phone: 1-800-772-0825 Fax: 1-855-271-9802 E-mail: [email protected]

	Your answers to the questions below are needed to prepare reliable State and National cattle on feed statistics to be published in the February 24 Iowa Cattle on Feed Report. The data are collected and published as a service to the cattle industry and may assist in planning and adjusting your cattle feeding operations. Your report is needed even though you may not currently have cattle on feed. Please mail your report in the enclosed envelope. The information you provide will be used for statistical purposes only. Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both. This survey is conducted in accordance with the Confidential Information Protection provisions of Title V, Subtitle A, Public Law 107-347 and other applicable Federal laws. For more information on how we protect your information please visit: https://www.nass.usda.gov/confidentiality. 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 number is 0535-0213. The time required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 15 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 make corrections to names, address and ZIP Code, if necessary.

We need to know about all cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market, regardless of ownership, on the total acres operated.

• Include cattle being fed by you for others.

• Exclude any of your cattle being custom fed in feedlots operated by others.

• Exclude cattle being “backgrounded only” for sale as feeders, for later placement on feed in another feedlot, or to be returned to pasture.

• Exclude “cows and bulls” from feed.

1. How many cattle and calves were on feed July 1 that will go directly from this operation to the slaughter market? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	652
2. During June, how many cattle and calves:

a. were placed on feed in your feedlot(s)?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	653
b. were shipped to slaughter market from your feedlot(s)?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	654
c. were shipped to someone else’s feedlot(s)?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	655
d. were returned to grazing?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	656
e. died?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	657

3. How many cattle and calves were on feed June 1 that will go directly from this operation to the slaughter market? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

916

4. Considering your cattle feeding facilities, what is the largest number of cattle and calves that you would feed for the slaughter market, at any one time?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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OVER PLEASE

HAY PRICES

Include any size or type of bale but exclude hay bought as standing hay. Exclude all hay purchased from dealers or any source other than farmers.
	Alfalfa hay	TONS
	5. How many tons of baled alfalfa hay and alfalfa hay mixtures did you purchase from other farmers in June? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	289
		DOLLARS
	6. What was the total amount you paid for the alfalfa hay and alfalfa hay mixtures purchased from other farmers in June? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	181
	7. Was any of the baled hay you purchased (reported in item 5) premium or supreme grade alfalfa hay? Premium grade: Early maturity, i.e., pre-bloom in legumes and pre-head in grass hays, extra leafy and fine stemmed. Factors indicative of a high nutritive content. Hay is green and free of damage. Supreme grade: Very early maturity, pre-bloom, soft fine stemmed, extra leafy. Factors indicative of very high nutritive content. Hay is excellent color and free of damage.
	1Yes - Continue 3No - Skip to Item 8 2Don't Know - Skip to Item 8	494
		TONS
	a. How many tons of baled premium and supreme grade alfalfa hay did you purchase from other farmers in June ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	290
		DOLLARS
	b. What was the total amount you paid for the premium and supreme grade alfalfa hay purchased from other farmers in June ?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	182
		TONS
	8. How many tons of other baled hay, including fescue, clover, bermuda, sudan, sudan crosses, lespedeza, bahia, timothy, grain, ryegrass, other grass, other tame, and wild hays did you purchase from other farmers in June? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	319
		DOLLARS
	9. What was the total amount you paid for the other baled hay purchased from other farmers in June?.	187

10 Has this operation (name on label) been sold, or turned over to someone else?

NO - Go to Item 10 YES - Identify the new operator(s).

Name: _________________________________________________________________________________________

Address: ______________________________________________________ Phone: ________________________

City: ______________________________________ State: ________________________ Zip:_________________

a. Did this person operate land individually in this State on June 1, 2017? YES NO

11. Survey Results: To receive the complete results of this survey on the release date, go to

http://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys

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

1Yes 3No

9990

			Office Use	Optional Use
			9909	916

Comments:

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

This completes the survey. Thank you for your help.

OFFICE USE ONLY
Response		Respondent		Mode		Enum.	Eval.	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-PASI (Mail) 2-PATI (Tel) 3-PAPI (Face-to-Face) 6-email 7-Fax 19-Other	9903	9998	9900	9985	9989
							R. Unit
							9921		Optional Use
									9907	9908	9906	9916
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