QID Cattle on Feed - Operations with less than 1000 head - H

CATTLE ON FEED INQUIRY - May 1, 2023
							OMB No. 0535-0213 Approval Expires:4/30/2024 Project Code: 485 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 May XX, 2023 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 response 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 and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2018, Title III of Pub. L. No. 115-435, codified in 44 U.S.C. Ch. 35 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 May 1 that will go directly from this operation to the slaughter market?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	652
2. During April, 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 April 1 that will go directly from this operation to the slaughter market? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	916

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.
		TONS
	4. How many tons of baled alfalfa hay and alfalfa hay mixtures did you purchase from other farmers in April?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	289
		DOLLARS
	5. What was the total amount you paid for the alfalfa hay and alfalfa hay mixtures purchased from other farmers in April? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	181
		TONS
	6. 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 April? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	319
		DOLLARS
	7. What was the total amount you paid for the other baled hay purchased from other farmers in April?	187
8. Has this operation (name on label) been sold, or turned over to someone else?
NO - Go to Item 9 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, 2022? YES NO

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

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

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Respondent Name:			Phone: (_____)	Date:

This completes the survey. Thank you for your help.