NRCS-Ohio Survey Questions 2023

OMB Control Number: 0560-0286
OMB Expiration date: 01/31/2024

Amended Survey Questions

Leading Question
1. Are you an agriculture producer, partner, or landowner?
Partner Questions
1. Are there barriers preventing your constituents from participating in our programs?
If so, what are they?
2. Are we reaching all the potential customers that could utilize our services?
3. Based on your region within the State of Ohio, what are your natural resource concerns?
Please identify your county and region. **Map to be added**
4. From a partner standpoint, is there other assistance NRCS can provide to producers/landowners,
act as a facilitator for other issues?
General Questions
1. Have you had prior experience working with NRCS? If not, why? **Social media/website
question. Will not be on partner survey.**
2. Based on our newly created Vision and Mission Statement, how can NRCS-Ohio better partner
with you to accomplish our shared vision and goals?
3. Have you used technical resources through NRCS? If so, which ones? **Social media/website &
partner survey question.**
4. Have the technical resources provided by NRCS been helpful to you? Explain.
5. How can NRCS help you better achieve your short term (1-2 year) conservation goals?
6. How can NRCS better serve your long term (3-5 year) needs in the future?
7. On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with NRCS-Ohio’s services? **Deleted from partner
survey.**
8. Briefly explain what you believe NRCS-Ohio does well.
9. What can NRCS-Ohio do better?
10. Where do you get your conservation information?
YouTube, Instagram, Trade Journals, Magazines, Extension Office, Universities, Private
Consultant, other Farmers?
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11. Do you depend on NRCS-Ohio as a trustworthy source of information for your conservation
needs? If so, why? If not, why?
12. Based on NRCS actions, what conservation priorities do you see your local NRCS office having?
Are NRCS’s actions and words in unison?
13. As a producer/landowner, is there other assistance NRCS can provide to act as a facilitator for
other issues?
14. What conservation practices have you implemented and been successful with?
15. What conservation practices have you attempted and been unsuccessful? Why?
16. IF NRCS-Ohio could solve one natural resource problem or concern for you, what would it be?
Seeking Brooke’s assistance/approval of non-discriminatory statement for partner survey.

Vision
Sustaining, safeguarding, and protecting natural resources to achieve clean water,
healthy soils, resilient landscapes, and thriving communities through voluntary conservation.

Mission Statement
To provide voluntary conservation solutions for Ohio landowners and agricultural producers
with effective tools, technical skills, and financial assistance to conserve the state’s natural
resources in a manner that is sustainable, environmentally friendly, and economically efficient.

Core Values
Act with integrity · Be accountable · Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Be transparent and responsive · Committed to our employees · Science driven conservation
Be customer-centric, committed to the partnership

Public Burden Statement (Paperwork Reduction Act): 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 for this information collection is
0560-0286. 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.

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