List of Changes to the Census of Ag Questionnaire for 2022

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2022 Census of Agriculture - Substantive Change Request

List of Changes to the Census of Ag Questionnaire for 2022

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2022 Census of Agriculture, Itemized List of Changes

Content Change

  • Section 4, Land Use Practices, Precision Ag – Question added. (Previously approved by SET)

    • Previously proposed in Section 25, Practices but space did not allow.

  • Section 4, Land Use Practices, Irrigation

    • 5-year question removed.

    • Acres with irrigation systems or equipment question added.

    • Intention question added.

    • Irrigation questions slightly reworded and order changed.

  • Section 7, Personal Characteristics

    • “Is the person completing the form?” removed.

    • Principal operator questions, removed. (Previously approved by SET)

      • Is this person a principal operator or senior partner?

      • Is this person the spouse of a principal operator or senior partner?

    • Item 3d, marketing decisions, added.

  • Section 10, Field Crops

    • Hemp by utilization added.

    • Sugarcane for seed dropped. Sugarcane for sugar dropped. Sugarcane for sugar or seed added.

  • Section 10, Field Crops; Section 11, Nursery; Section 12, Vegetables

    • Sweet corn for seed was removed from Field Crops.

    • Vegetable seeds grown in the open will not be valid in the Nursery Section.

    • Vegetable seeds grown in the open will be reported under a specific vegetable in the Vegetable Section.

  • Section 11, Nursery

    • Hemp items added.

    • Sod harvested was changed to Sod harvested or intended for sale in future years.

  • Section 12, Vegetables, added crops are gourds and parsnips. Squash categories were combined.

  • Section 13, Fruit, Nuts, and Berries, added crops are longan, lychees, paw paws, rambutan, gooseberries, and mulberries. Raspberries were combined. Temple oranges were deleted as a separate item and will now be included with tangerines.

  • Section 17, Sheep and Goats, Hair sheep or wool-hair crosses item added.

  • Section 25, Practices, Types of internet access were updated.

  • Section 26, Food Marketing Practices, Marketing channels were split into four categories.

    • In 2017, there were two (1. Consumers; 2. Retail Markets, Institutions, or Food Hubs for Local or Regionally Branded Products).

  • Section 28, Renewable Energy, two categories were removed.

    • Biodiesel production system and Ethanol production system.





Data Collection Change

  • Face Page

    • All boxes and/or item codes have changed.

    • Change “Your report is due by…” to “Your mandatory report is due by…”

  • Section 4, Land Use Practices

    • Wording of 2b and 2c tillage questions have changed. The meanings remain as intended in 2017.

  • Section 4, Irrigation

    • Recommended that Irrigation have a separate section if there is enough space on the page.

  • Section 6, Type of Organization

    • Households sharing net farm income was moved up from the last question to the second question.

    • Separated Legal Status: Other into three categories. The breakouts will not be published.

  • Section 9, Woodland Crops, Specify box added for short rotation woody crops.

  • Section 10, Field Crops

    • Preprints added for corn for grain or seed, soybeans for beans, and winter wheat for grain or seed.

    • “All hay including alfalfa and other – report in SECTION 8” added

    • Hops changed to be collected to the tenth acre.

  • Section 11, Nursery, Vegetable transplants to farm fields was moved from Propagative Materials Sold to Food Crops Grown Under Glass or Other Protection.

  • Section 21, Other Livestock and Section 22, Livestock Products

    • These were one section in 2017 but were separated into two sections for the Content Test.

    • Slight rewording for mink and pelts.

  • Section 23, Production Contracts, the Other Crops line was removed. There are now two lines for “Vegetables and other crops”. Vegetables previously had one line.

  • Section 25, Practices, Internet access

    • Move the internet access questions to the first item in the section.

  • Section 30, Labor, Changing the order of the questions was tested in the 2020 Content Test but not accepted (unpaid, hired, and migrant).

    • The order of labor questions for 2022 was changed to hired, migrant, then unpaid.

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